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 Ivory Coast and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare 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 Albert Ayler to the rap 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Gabor Szabo,
Gichy Dan,
Reuben Wilson,
Bauhaus,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Style,
The Golliwogs,
Popol Vuh,
Japan,
Swell Maps,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Juan Atkins,
Yellowson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Outsiders,
Darondo,
Hoover,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rotary Connection,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Das Ding,
Half Japanese,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yusef Lateef,
48th St. Collective,
The Red Krayola,
Ohio Players,
Joyce Sims,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Machine,
Malaria!,
Mantronix,
Eden Ahbez,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mo-Dettes,
Charles Mingus,
Nirvana,
Ludus,
Roxy Music,
Technova,
Pulsallama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Swans,
Babytalk,
Lungfish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cheater Slicks,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Goldenarms,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.