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 Jordan and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Boogie Down Productions to the rock 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Johnny Osbourne,
Arab on Radar,
Reagan Youth,
Kerri Chandler,
Q and Not U,
Smog,
Whodini,
Grauzone,
Surgeon,
Blossom Toes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Connie Case,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott Heron,
Warren Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Duran Duran,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mummies,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ultravox,
Negative Approach,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roger Hodgson,
Vainqueur,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Music Machine,
Talk Talk,
David Bowie,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yusef Lateef,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Model 500,
Ten City,
Chris Corsano,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Delta 5,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pantytec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Los Fastidios,
Basic Channel,
Interpol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
Lou Christie,
Jerry's Kids,
The Knickerbockers,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.