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 Bolivia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Unwound to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Bauhaus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Trumans Water,
Sparks,
Marvin Gaye,
Jandek,
The Star Department,
Tim Buckley,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lalann,
Harpers Bizarre,
Maleditus Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Dual Sessions,
Absolute Body Control,
Rhythm & Sound,
Minor Threat,
Dorothy Ashby,
K-Klass,
Sound Behaviour,
Excepter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Drexciya,
The Victims,
David McCallum,
Underground Resistance,
Moby Grape,
Hasil Adkins,
Essential Logic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marc Almond,
Rosa Yemen,
Deepchord,
The Wake,
Gichy Dan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Flag,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobby Byrd,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
MDC,
Black Moon,
Soft Cell,
Nils Olav,
Depeche Mode,
Pere Ubu,
CMW,
Slave,
the Human League,
Funkadelic,
Erasure,
The Divine Comedy,
Max Romeo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bad Manners,
Anthony Braxton,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.