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 Syria and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
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 snare 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 Audionom to the techno 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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
The Fire Engines,
Chris Corsano,
Roxy Music,
Circle Jerks,
MC5,
Bang On A Can,
LL Cool J,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marmalade,
Popol Vuh,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alton Ellis,
Anakelly,
The Skatalites,
The Black Dice,
Cheater Slicks,
Hoover,
Ohio Players,
Nirvana,
Ice-T,
Faust,
Model 500,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Pretty Things,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
Japan,
kango's stein massive,
Excepter,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Angels of Light,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
Au Pairs,
The Dead C,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pagans,
Angry Samoans,
The Kinks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Monks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marshall Jefferson,
KRS-One,
Matthew Halsall,
Alice Coltrane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lucky Dragons,
Infiniti,
Guru Guru,
Harry Pussy,
Lungfish,
AZ,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.