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 Maldives and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joe Smooth 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
The Fall,
Max Romeo,
Pierre Henry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minnie Riperton,
Johnny Clarke,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cluster,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Agitation Free,
the Swans,
the Bar-Kays,
Kaleidoscope,
Leonard Cohen,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Heaven 17,
Deepchord,
The Fire Engines,
Talk Talk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rufus Thomas,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Interpol,
Erasure,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Black Dice,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soulsonic Force,
Ten City,
Ice-T,
Neu!,
Thee Headcoats,
Wire,
Crooked Eye,
The Pop Group,
Motorama,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pantytec,
Trumans Water,
Section 25,
Alison Limerick,
FM Einheit,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Tremeloes,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter & Gordon,
Roxy Music,
Fela Kuti,
Davy DMX,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.