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 Georgia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
In Retrospect,
Mr. Review,
Kaleidoscope,
Fugazi,
Second Layer,
Marine Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Flash Fearless,
The Searchers,
Andrew Hill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
Yaz,
Whodini,
Gabor Szabo,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick May,
Sandy B,
Pharoah Sanders,
Man Parrish,
Pussy Galore,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Bananas,
Hoover,
Model 500,
Procol Harum,
Niagra,
John Lydon,
Charles Mingus,
One Last Wish,
Stereo Dub,
Joy Division,
Arab on Radar,
Minny Pops,
The Associates,
the Association,
Soul II Soul,
Albert Ayler,
Television,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Electric Prunes,
June of 44,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marvin Gaye,
Crime,
Jacques Brel,
John Coltrane,
The Cure,
Bob Dylan,
Angry Samoans,
Babytalk,
Ultra Naté,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.