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 South Sudan and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
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 808 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 Black Flag to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Gichy Dan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dark Day,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ludus,
Make Up,
Sun City Girls,
K-Klass,
Blake Baxter,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker,
Au Pairs,
10cc,
Lou Christie,
Steve Hackett,
Jeff Mills,
Black Moon,
Masters at Work,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Misunderstood,
Kurtis Blow,
OOIOO,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Anthony Braxton,
Simply Red,
The Fall,
The Music Machine,
The Human League,
Massinfluence,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Unwound,
PIL,
Scientists,
DJ Style,
Davy DMX,
Yazoo,
Laurel Aitken,
Rod Modell,
Arthur Verocai,
June Days,
Black Sheep,
Scratch Acid,
Average White Band,
Public Enemy,
The Residents,
New York Dolls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Dennis Brown,
The Gun Club,
The Gladiators,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Tim Buckley,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.