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 France and from Halifax.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Alice Coltrane to the crunk 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Anthony Braxton,
Lower 48,
Scratch Acid,
kango's stein massive,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
Severed Heads,
X-Ray Spex,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hardrive,
Ossler,
Hasil Adkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pantaleimon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Modern Lovers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grauzone,
Roy Ayers,
Colin Newman,
Gang Green,
The Fall,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Gap Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Rekid,
Black Pus,
Erasure,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skaos,
Morten Harket,
Q65,
Yusef Lateef,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Raincoats,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Rundgren,
Yaz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marvin Gaye,
Scrapy,
Brass Construction,
Alton Ellis,
Excepter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vladislav Delay,
The Misunderstood,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tubeway Army,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Derrick May,
Bobby Sherman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
This Heat,
David McCallum,
E-Dancer,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.