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 Saudi Arabia and from Bologna.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
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 snare 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 Moebius to the techno 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Morten Harket,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Real Kids,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Leaves,
10cc,
Jerry's Kids,
Hasil Adkins,
Marvin Gaye,
Monolake,
Donald Byrd,
The Victims,
Nico,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pussy Galore,
Black Bananas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Boredoms,
The Star Department,
The Golliwogs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moss Icon,
Iggy Pop,
Young Marble Giants,
Thee Headcoats,
Mandrill,
Letta Mbulu,
The Beau Brummels,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cramps,
The Knickerbockers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Music Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Altered Images,
The J.B.'s,
Masters at Work,
Funkadelic,
Accadde A,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Albert Ayler,
D'Angelo,
Barrington Levy,
Thompson Twins,
Carl Craig,
Curtis Mayfield,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vladislav Delay,
Loose Ends,
Inner City,
Steve Hackett,
The Grass Roots,
the Germs,
Massinfluence,
Amazonics,
Mark Hollis,
Judy Mowatt,
Los Fastidios,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.