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 Malawi and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
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 oboe 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the techno 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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
LL Cool J,
Underground Resistance,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Durutti Column,
Grey Daturas,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mantronix,
The Wake,
Basic Channel,
Nas,
Pantytec,
The Knickerbockers,
Junior Murvin,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Moleskins,
Brick,
Theoretical Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Can,
Ludus,
Smog,
Black Bananas,
Pulsallama,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Zeros,
Lalann,
Bobby Womack,
Minor Threat,
James White and The Blacks,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Surgeon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pere Ubu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Techniques,
Lou Reed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Supertramp,
John Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Danielle Patucci,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rufus Thomas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Iggy Pop,
10cc,
Scrapy,
Shoche,
Alphaville,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.