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 Australia and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Mission of Burma,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yaz,
Von Mondo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Görl,
Ultravox,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Invisible,
Marvin Gaye,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rod Modell,
The Pretty Things,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
Moss Icon,
Soft Machine,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Oblivians,
PIL,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Archie Shepp,
The Offenders,
The Barracudas,
The Blues Magoos,
The Black Dice,
Fugazi,
Sound Behaviour,
Brass Construction,
Deepchord,
Boogie Down Productions,
Stereo Dub,
Depeche Mode,
Liliput,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Human League,
Dennis Brown,
Rakim,
Hashim,
Chris & Cosey,
the Swans,
The Gladiators,
Derrick May,
Essential Logic,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Young Rascals,
Technova,
John Lydon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
FM Einheit,
Bush Tetras,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Bourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Starr,
Intrusion,
Bronski Beat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
Altered Images,
Unwound,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.