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 Micronesia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 Jandek to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
The Fuzztones,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Vainqueur,
The Blackbyrds,
the Germs,
B.T. Express,
The Detroit Cobras,
Newcleus,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Copeland,
Cal Tjader,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Model 500,
Sparks,
Bad Manners,
The Selecter,
Lou Christie,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bill Wells,
Tim Buckley,
Pole,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Barracudas,
Tubeway Army,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stetsasonic,
Arcadia,
Fad Gadget,
Ohio Players,
Fela Kuti,
Alphaville,
Hashim,
Crooked Eye,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Subhumans,
Deadbeat,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amazonics,
Lindisfarne,
The Associates,
Bush Tetras,
Japan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Coltrane,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Negative Approach,
Altered Images,
The Names,
Lower 48,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.