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 Nepal and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Theoretical Girls to the jazz 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown 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 dance 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Warsaw,
Lyres,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Womack,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Star Department,
Brass Construction,
Suburban Knight,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Isaac Hayes,
Alton Ellis,
Technova,
Kas Product,
Mo-Dettes,
Slave,
the Slits,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pagans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
the Sonics,
John Foxx,
Ituana,
Harpers Bizarre,
Al Stewart,
The Walker Brothers,
Echospace,
10cc,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arcadia,
Blancmange,
Cymande,
Jacob Miller,
Pussy Galore,
Liliput,
John Coltrane,
Sarah Menescal,
Rapeman,
Lower 48,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
MC5,
Tommy Roe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Howard Jones,
The Busters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Inner City,
The Techniques,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Sheep,
Minnie Riperton,
Quantec,
the Swans,
Soulsonic Force,
Rotary Connection,
Kool Moe Dee,
Clear Light,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.