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 Honduras and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 U.S. Maple to the electroclash 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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Arthur Verocai,
Archie Shepp,
Little Man,
Quantec,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
Shoche,
Nils Olav,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Wake,
The Sound,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Ice-T,
The Buckinghams,
Ituana,
The Blackbyrds,
the Slits,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Flag,
Faust,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Alison Limerick,
Yaz,
Maurizio,
Fat Boys,
The Evens,
Khruangbin,
Moebius,
This Heat,
Adolescents,
The Stooges,
Suicide,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Patti Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
AZ,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eurythmics,
Pylon,
X-101,
Maleditus Sound,
The Motions,
H. Thieme,
Pantytec,
Supertramp,
Sarah Menescal,
Fluxion,
Wally Richardson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Trojans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Funkadelic,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.