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 Brazil 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sonny Sharrock to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
The Cure,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sam Rivers,
Brass Construction,
Erykah Badu,
New Order,
Wire,
DJ Sneak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Shadows of Knight,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zapp,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
Tres Demented,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pylon,
Mantronix,
The Gun Club,
Brothers Johnson,
The Dead C,
ABC,
Juan Atkins,
Eric Dolphy,
Harmonia,
Sound Behaviour,
Brand Nubian,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gang of Four,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeru the Damaja,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Young Rascals,
John Coltrane,
The Invisible,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fela Kuti,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Public Enemy,
Niagra,
Pagans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tim Buckley,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Mummies,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bronski Beat,
Moss Icon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.