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 Serbia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Gap Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Au Pairs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marvin Gaye,
Niagra,
Tubeway Army,
The Blackbyrds,
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Audionom,
Symarip,
Zero Boys,
Suburban Knight,
Wasted Youth,
The Star Department,
Swell Maps,
Deepchord,
D'Angelo,
Vladislav Delay,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Hoover,
Flash Fearless,
Funkadelic,
The Stooges,
Steve Hackett,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Model 500,
Janne Schatter,
The Standells,
Kas Product,
Guru Guru,
ABBA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alphaville,
Essential Logic,
the Sonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Busters,
Nik Kershaw,
Rapeman,
Neu!,
David Axelrod,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Smoke,
Urselle,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Marc Almond,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon,
Stiv Bators,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.