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 Iran and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Evens to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Schoolly D,
Radio Birdman,
Cal Tjader,
Max Romeo,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
Khruangbin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bronski Beat,
Oneida,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wings,
Banda Bassotti,
Freddie Wadling,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Audionom,
kango's stein massive,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Gichy Dan,
Q65,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
a-ha,
Erasure,
Minnie Riperton,
Supertramp,
June Days,
Excepter,
Crime,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Trojans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hoover,
R.M.O.,
The Seeds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Flag,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Gang Starr,
La Düsseldorf,
Ponytail,
Rakim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moby Grape,
Can,
Los Fastidios,
Avey Tare,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Traffic Nightmare,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Popol Vuh,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.