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 Japan and from Lille.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Kayak 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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Aswad,
Johnny Clarke,
Subhumans,
Parry Music,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alice Coltrane,
Fugazi,
kango's stein massive,
Soft Cell,
Reagan Youth,
Negative Approach,
Prince Buster,
Rapeman,
The Fuzztones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Siglo XX,
Wolf Eyes,
The Barracudas,
Todd Rundgren,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Slits,
Massinfluence,
Derrick Morgan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Holt,
Camberwell Now,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
Adolescents,
Circle Jerks,
Bush Tetras,
Icehouse,
Dave Gahan,
The Divine Comedy,
Scion,
Warsaw,
The Mummies,
Metal Thangz,
Bluetip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
New Order,
Albert Ayler,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
KRS-One,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
ABC,
La Düsseldorf,
Bronski Beat,
Pantaleimon,
Tres Demented,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Smog,
Q and Not U,
Agitation Free,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.