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 Cyprus and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric Dolphy to the electroclash 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blake Baxter,
Thee Headcoats,
X-102,
Visage,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Litter,
Yazoo,
The Five Americans,
Porter Ricks,
Lindisfarne,
Brick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Cale,
Talk Talk,
Drexciya,
Bob Dylan,
Theoretical Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Little Man,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fuzztones,
Kurtis Blow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sister Nancy,
T.S.O.L.,
The Tremeloes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Misunderstood,
Duran Duran,
The Doobie Brothers,
Smog,
ABBA,
Ronnie Foster,
Roger Hodgson,
Sex Pistols,
Bobby Womack,
kango's stein massive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gong,
Joy Division,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultra Naté,
John Coltrane,
Essential Logic,
The Martian,
Intrusion,
The Names,
Donald Byrd,
Joe Finger,
Gabor Szabo,
Alice Coltrane,
Ponytail,
Aural Exciters,
Babytalk,
Angry Samoans,
Ken Boothe,
Camberwell Now,
The Skatalites,
Rosa Yemen,
Andrew Hill,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.