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 Latvia and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 John Cale to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Kaleidoscope,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Todd Terry,
The Residents,
Suicide,
Cecil Taylor,
The Flesh Eaters,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Stereo Dub,
Mark Hollis,
Aswad,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dawn Penn,
Morten Harket,
Desert Stars,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cure,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barrington Levy,
China Crisis,
Judy Mowatt,
Flipper,
Radiopuhelimet,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lindisfarne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tomorrow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
F. McDonald,
Sexual Harrassment,
Outsiders,
Deadbeat,
Japan,
the Association,
Yellowson,
Au Pairs,
DJ Sneak,
Depeche Mode,
June Days,
Lakeside,
Symarip,
B.T. Express,
Section 25,
the Bar-Kays,
Lungfish,
Ultra Naté,
Ronan,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.