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 Tuvalu and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Radiopuhelimet,
Motorama,
Black Flag,
Derrick May,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gabor Szabo,
Yellowson,
Ten City,
Yaz,
Thompson Twins,
The Tremeloes,
Malaria!,
Crispy Ambulance,
MDC,
Los Fastidios,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tears for Fears,
The Sound,
Judy Mowatt,
Anthony Braxton,
Reuben Wilson,
Todd Terry,
Brass Construction,
Crooked Eye,
Bill Near,
Reagan Youth,
Television Personalities,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Davy DMX,
Saccharine Trust,
Man Parrish,
John Lydon,
Blossom Toes,
Scientists,
Chris Corsano,
Animal Collective,
Al Stewart,
Rosa Yemen,
Piero Umiliani,
Make Up,
Joe Smooth,
Janne Schatter,
The Divine Comedy,
the Soft Cell,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Christie,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Outsiders,
Radiohead,
The Gap Band,
Max Romeo,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.