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 Greece and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Byron Stingily 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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Fat Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Smog,
Thee Headcoats,
Sound Behaviour,
Skarface,
The Kinks,
The Searchers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
L. Decosne,
H. Thieme,
Whodini,
the Association,
Letta Mbulu,
Pantytec,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pere Ubu,
Minny Pops,
James White and The Blacks,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris & Cosey,
Eve St. Jones,
Q65,
Prince Buster,
Neu!,
Essential Logic,
Warren Ellis,
Throbbing Gristle,
Arthur Verocai,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Music Machine,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Cecil Taylor,
Depeche Mode,
Fear,
Panda Bear,
Derrick Morgan,
Junior Murvin,
Liliput,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nico,
Rod Modell,
Bill Near,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
R.M.O.,
Reuben Wilson,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.