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 Australia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Michael McDonald 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 Vainqueur to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Joe Smooth,
Gang of Four,
Donald Byrd,
Johnny Osbourne,
Oneida,
Gerry Rafferty,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pole,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
MDC,
Funky Four + One,
Moby Grape,
Ohio Players,
Boogie Down Productions,
Essential Logic,
The Gun Club,
The Buckinghams,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q and Not U,
Country Teasers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sixth Finger,
Janne Schatter,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Bananas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scratch Acid,
Black Moon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Blake Baxter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Infiniti,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Raincoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Patti Smith,
Symarip,
Brass Construction,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Swans,
Sugar Minott,
Spandau Ballet,
June Days,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Pus,
Kayak,
Anthony Braxton,
Josef K,
Aswad,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tears for Fears,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.