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 Bulgaria and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Yazoo to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Shoche,
The Real Kids,
Mad Mike,
Blake Baxter,
The Kinks,
Mark Hollis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Quantec,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marc Almond,
Don Cherry,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arab on Radar,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
June of 44,
the Sonics,
Brothers Johnson,
Jawbox,
Ice-T,
U.S. Maple,
Tom Boy,
Howard Jones,
Aswad,
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Eric Dolphy,
Gichy Dan,
The Five Americans,
Saccharine Trust,
The Dead C,
Wasted Youth,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hasil Adkins,
Yazoo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Terry Callier,
Harmonia,
Rakim,
T. Rex,
Johnny Clarke,
Colin Newman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
Gang of Four,
Smog,
Youth Brigade,
Minny Pops,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Harpers Bizarre,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.