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 Andorra and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Colin Newman to the funk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
The Gun Club,
Liliput,
Chris & Cosey,
The J.B.'s,
Hoover,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Moody Blues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The United States of America,
the Sonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
D'Angelo,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Adolescents,
Radiohead,
Curtis Mayfield,
Newcleus,
Guru Guru,
Blossom Toes,
Con Funk Shun,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantytec,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed,
Jeff Lynne,
Pussy Galore,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
The Knickerbockers,
Charles Mingus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quadrant,
Maleditus Sound,
The Names,
The Evens,
Technova,
Gastr Del Sol,
MC5,
Gabor Szabo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Blackbyrds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Andrew Hill,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Minutemen,
The Red Krayola,
Tomorrow,
Matthew Bourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
Mantronix,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pierre Henry,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Sherman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.