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 Czech Republic and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Litter,
the Bar-Kays,
Lakeside,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Swans,
FM Einheit,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fortunes,
Nick Fraelich,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wire,
The Gories,
Japan,
cv313,
Y Pants,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bill Wells,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marine Girls,
The Fire Engines,
Radio Birdman,
Bronski Beat,
Carl Craig,
A Certain Ratio,
Oneida,
Amon Düül,
UT,
Zapp,
Kurtis Blow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Beau Brummels,
New Order,
Can,
Alison Limerick,
Metal Thangz,
Matthew Halsall,
Camouflage,
Young Marble Giants,
Sight & Sound,
Von Mondo,
In Retrospect,
Fela Kuti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Technova,
Soft Machine,
Glenn Branca,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
Pagans,
James White and The Blacks,
Quando Quango,
Tim Buckley,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.