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 Bolivia and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb 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 Radiohead to the crunk 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Smog,
Franke,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pole,
The Gun Club,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mad Mike,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Invisible,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tres Demented,
Donald Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wasted Youth,
Lower 48,
Grauzone,
The Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Slits,
DJ Sneak,
Jawbox,
DNA,
This Heat,
MDC,
Kenny Larkin,
MC5,
Technova,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deakin,
The Gladiators,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Supertramp,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
L. Decosne,
Marvin Gaye,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris Corsano,
Donny Hathaway,
Saccharine Trust,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bronski Beat,
Circle Jerks,
Blossom Toes,
The Offenders,
Inner City,
The Moleskins,
Massinfluence,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ponytail,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yazoo,
Infiniti,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.