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 India and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Birthday Party to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Golliwogs,
Boz Scaggs,
the Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
H. Thieme,
Alton Ellis,
Pulsallama,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Symarip,
Youth Brigade,
Joey Negro,
LL Cool J,
Scientists,
Gong,
Pagans,
John Foxx,
The Happenings,
Adolescents,
Morten Harket,
Minny Pops,
Rufus Thomas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New York Dolls,
Theoretical Girls,
New Age Steppers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ultra Naté,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Young Rascals,
The Moleskins,
Albert Ayler,
Quando Quango,
Arab on Radar,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Shoche,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kas Product,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott Heron,
Qualms,
Chrome,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lungfish,
Scion,
Massinfluence,
The Slits,
Sun Ra,
Essential Logic,
Blake Baxter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sun City Girls,
Gang of Four,
The Modern Lovers,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.