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 Israel and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator 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 Inner City to the grunge 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Pulsallama,
F. McDonald,
Nils Olav,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chris Corsano,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rosa Yemen,
The Buckinghams,
Section 25,
Aural Exciters,
KRS-One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Moon,
Kool Moe Dee,
kango's stein massive,
Clear Light,
Susan Cadogan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Görl,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
David Bowie,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Smoke,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Prunes,
Harmonia,
Camberwell Now,
X-102,
Wally Richardson,
John Holt,
Skaos,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rekid,
Tommy Roe,
Aswad,
Yusef Lateef,
The Seeds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jacob Miller,
The Beau Brummels,
the Fania All-Stars,
David McCallum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lebanon Hanover,
The United States of America,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Trojans,
Unwound,
Bobby Sherman,
Saccharine Trust,
Danielle Patucci,
Robert Wyatt,
China Crisis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suburban Knight,
Robert Hood,
Sandy B,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül II,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.