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 Slovakia and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
The Blues Magoos,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
DJ Style,
Amon Düül,
Lakeside,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yellowson,
Laurel Aitken,
Lightning Bolt,
Jacques Brel,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nik Kershaw,
Throbbing Gristle,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Sherman,
Swell Maps,
Chris Corsano,
Television Personalities,
Metal Thangz,
Hashim,
Scientists,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Royal Trux,
EPMD,
Derrick Morgan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
The Seeds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Boz Scaggs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skaos,
The Fuzztones,
Whodini,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Clear Light,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Underground Resistance,
Section 25,
Maleditus Sound,
June of 44,
Saccharine Trust,
Ronan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alice Coltrane,
Quando Quango,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Michelle Simonal,
Von Mondo,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.