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 Syria and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Holger Czukay 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 Royal Trux to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Khruangbin,
The Blackbyrds,
Jacques Brel,
Barrington Levy,
Kayak,
Sight & Sound,
World's Most,
Ice-T,
Vainqueur,
Gong,
Marmalade,
U.S. Maple,
The Residents,
The Divine Comedy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Red Krayola,
Qualms,
Joensuu 1685,
New Age Steppers,
The Cramps,
The Pop Group,
The Sound,
The Fall,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronan,
The Happenings,
One Last Wish,
Half Japanese,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sixth Finger,
Goldenarms,
Ossler,
The Kinks,
Camberwell Now,
Reuben Wilson,
The Moleskins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MDC,
Boredoms,
Marine Girls,
Don Cherry,
Derrick May,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Offenders,
John Cale,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Warren Ellis,
Pole,
The Toasters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bluetip,
Henry Cow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Slave,
Rapeman,
Marc Almond,
Godley & Creme,
Boz Scaggs,
Andrew Hill,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.