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 Solomon Islands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mexico City.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rites of Spring to the grime 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay 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?
Sam Rivers,
Con Funk Shun,
Jandek,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lindisfarne,
This Heat,
Anakelly,
Warsaw,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Move,
Lalo Schifrin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Minny Pops,
Patti Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Junior Murvin,
Tubeway Army,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joensuu 1685,
The Saints,
Mark Hollis,
Hot Snakes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Motorama,
Maleditus Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kas Product,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Darondo,
Technova,
Pierre Henry,
Nico,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Trojans,
The Black Dice,
Maurizio,
Liliput,
Don Cherry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Stooges,
Black Sheep,
Hasil Adkins,
Surgeon,
The Techniques,
Flamin' Groovies,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Anthony Braxton,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
Blake Baxter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Avey Tare,
The Cramps,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.