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 Bahamas and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Minutemen to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Negative Approach,
the Soft Cell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Halsall,
Kurtis Blow,
The Kinks,
The Residents,
Bronski Beat,
The Fall,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barclay James Harvest,
Trumans Water,
Magma,
Michelle Simonal,
Procol Harum,
The Fugs,
The Smiths,
Kenny Larkin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ohio Players,
Jawbox,
Bluetip,
New Order,
Mo-Dettes,
Cluster,
The Evens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Don Cherry,
Piero Umiliani,
Agitation Free,
Clear Light,
Nico,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker,
The Slackers,
The Black Dice,
Josef K,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rufus Thomas,
The Leaves,
The Toasters,
John Coltrane,
The Pop Group,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
X-102,
FM Einheit,
Basic Channel,
Black Bananas,
Juan Atkins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.