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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Theoretical Girls,
Davy DMX,
Bronski Beat,
John Coltrane,
Ludus,
Yellowson,
the Sonics,
Smog,
Sparks,
Matthew Halsall,
The Busters,
Erykah Badu,
The Techniques,
Tommy Roe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marvin Gaye,
the Association,
Dead Boys,
The Count Five,
Monks,
Letta Mbulu,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Associates,
Drexciya,
Kurtis Blow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Byrd,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hardrive,
Bauhaus,
Jacques Brel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Stooges,
The Invisible,
Dual Sessions,
Von Mondo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
Franke,
Robert Wyatt,
Isaac Hayes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
The Selecter,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick May,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Monochrome Set,
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Chrome,
Sarah Menescal,
Ponytail,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.