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 Grenada and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the electroclash 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Kenny Larkin,
John Cale,
Drexciya,
Pharoah Sanders,
Essential Logic,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Trumans Water,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pole,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Negative Approach,
Deadbeat,
Amazonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fall,
Barrington Levy,
Reagan Youth,
Stetsasonic,
Surgeon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Buzzcocks,
The Invisible,
The Modern Lovers,
Boredoms,
Lindisfarne,
Gang Green,
Blake Baxter,
Shoche,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Alton Ellis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scratch Acid,
Bluetip,
Faust,
The Dead C,
Make Up,
Joe Finger,
Man Parrish,
the Swans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camouflage,
John Lydon,
Joyce Sims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wings,
Jandek,
The Fortunes,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Music Machine,
Niagra,
Rites of Spring,
Gang Starr,
Skriet,
the Human League,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.