Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Liberia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Aloha Tigers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Yellowson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q and Not U,
48th St. Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erykah Badu,
Faust,
The Selecter,
Absolute Body Control,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
Essential Logic,
Smog,
Quando Quango,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pylon,
Charles Mingus,
Desert Stars,
The Dirtbombs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spoonie Gee,
The Electric Prunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The United States of America,
Tubeway Army,
R.M.O.,
The Names,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Swans,
Zapp,
Saccharine Trust,
Arab on Radar,
Depeche Mode,
cv313,
Shuggie Otis,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultra Naté,
Accadde A,
Animal Collective,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Roy Ayers,
The Slits,
Deepchord,
Alton Ellis,
Masters at Work,
Surgeon,
Unrelated Segments,
Brick,
One Last Wish,
Chris & Cosey,
Jawbox,
Iggy Pop,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.