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 Croatia and from Seoul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 John Holt to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dead C,
Qualms,
The Toasters,
OOIOO,
Piero Umiliani,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Desert Stars,
Main Source,
L. Decosne,
Interpol,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
JFA,
Donald Byrd,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Talk Talk,
Mandrill,
the Soft Cell,
Toni Rubio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tres Demented,
Quadrant,
Banda Bassotti,
DJ Style,
Whodini,
Steve Hackett,
Cameo,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Saints,
Clear Light,
The Music Machine,
Chris Corsano,
Can,
Fear,
Nick Fraelich,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Slits,
Deepchord,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeff Mills,
Reagan Youth,
The Mojo Men,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Cale,
Fad Gadget,
One Last Wish,
Rekid,
Byron Stingily,
Tomorrow,
Mr. Review,
Roy Ayers,
Echospace,
Loose Ends,
The Residents,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ornette Coleman,
T.S.O.L.,
Alton Ellis,
Royal Trux,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.