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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Swans to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Buckinghams,
Scott Walker,
Rotary Connection,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Evens,
Derrick Morgan,
Parry Music,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Christie,
Donald Byrd,
Franke,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
MC5,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Prince Buster,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tom Boy,
Oneida,
The Slackers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cheater Slicks,
Model 500,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Negative Approach,
Barclay James Harvest,
Agent Orange,
Ponytail,
Drive Like Jehu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Slave,
Soulsonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blues Magoos,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Electric Prunes,
Organ,
Khruangbin,
The Cure,
Eric Dolphy,
Tim Buckley,
Lungfish,
Josef K,
The Slits,
Zero Boys,
Icehouse,
Gichy Dan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Main Source,
Hasil Adkins,
X-101,
The Black Dice,
Tomorrow,
Infiniti,
The Mummies,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.