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 Croatia 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Underground Resistance to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Standells,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sound Behaviour,
Grauzone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
Ice-T,
Funky Four + One,
Skarface,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eddi Front,
Section 25,
Soft Machine,
John Foxx,
EPMD,
Cymande,
Alphaville,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Index,
The Cramps,
the Bar-Kays,
Minnie Riperton,
Kaleidoscope,
Japan,
Quantec,
Gang Green,
Stetsasonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Monochrome Set,
Gerry Rafferty,
Groovy Waters,
Pulsallama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Stiv Bators,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nils Olav,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Ludus,
Erasure,
Laurel Aitken,
Public Enemy,
Jeff Lynne,
Rekid,
The Knickerbockers,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Tremeloes,
Suicide,
Graham Central Station,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fat Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Morten Harket,
Albert Ayler,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.