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 Georgia and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Bad Manners to the grunge 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Cal Tjader,
Guru Guru,
Joensuu 1685,
The Associates,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Kinks,
Scott Walker,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick Morgan,
Graham Central Station,
The Saints,
The Move,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Sheep,
The Slits,
The Toasters,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Wells,
Theoretical Girls,
the Germs,
Glenn Branca,
The Doors,
Bobby Byrd,
Whodini,
The Music Machine,
Altered Images,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fire Engines,
Fluxion,
Freddie Wadling,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Wake,
The Doobie Brothers,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
Ultravox,
Scion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eve St. Jones,
Drive Like Jehu,
Groovy Waters,
Gong,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gories,
Tomorrow,
Lou Christie,
Lucky Dragons,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maurizio,
Ludus,
Hashim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.