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 Iceland and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pagans to the techno 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Albert Ayler,
Khruangbin,
The Remains,
Aswad,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cymande,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Connie Case,
The Five Americans,
DJ Style,
Youth Brigade,
The Stooges,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Walker Brothers,
Erasure,
Lower 48,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fugs,
The Angels of Light,
Camberwell Now,
John Coltrane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Second Layer,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Motions,
Junior Murvin,
Ultravox,
The Victims,
The Trojans,
The Last Poets,
The Velvet Underground,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Evens,
Sällskapet,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Byrd,
Gang Gang Dance,
Barbara Tucker,
The Skatalites,
Bush Tetras,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Sound,
Cybotron,
Spandau Ballet,
Neu!,
The Associates,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minor Threat,
Todd Terry,
John Cale,
Tomorrow,
The Raincoats,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cameo,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Wells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.