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 Kazakhstan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar 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 Josef K to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Schoolly D,
Erasure,
Surgeon,
Second Layer,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aswad,
Scientists,
The Saints,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bluetip,
Maurizio,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Soft Cell,
Barrington Levy,
Minnie Riperton,
Alison Limerick,
Henry Cow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Litter,
Liliput,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Halsall,
Gastr Del Sol,
Albert Ayler,
Pole,
Jawbox,
Davy DMX,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Shuggie Otis,
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radiohead,
The Martian,
Oneida,
Yusef Lateef,
Mo-Dettes,
Crime,
the Sonics,
The Divine Comedy,
Qualms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Symarip,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Blackbyrds,
Agitation Free,
Alice Coltrane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pantaleimon,
Rosa Yemen,
Scion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amon Düül II,
Half Japanese,
Swans,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.