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 Cambodia and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jeff Mills to the grunge 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
One Last Wish,
The Sonics,
Dark Day,
Young Marble Giants,
Byron Stingily,
Hashim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Aural Exciters,
David Axelrod,
Sugar Minott,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grauzone,
The Real Kids,
Pere Ubu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Howard Jones,
Thee Headcoats,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lower 48,
Erykah Badu,
The Searchers,
Vladislav Delay,
Ten City,
the Germs,
Sister Nancy,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amon Düül II,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sonic Youth,
Schoolly D,
Johnny Clarke,
Yaz,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
Panda Bear,
A Certain Ratio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nico,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Make Up,
Sex Pistols,
Alton Ellis,
Surgeon,
Livin' Joy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ultra Naté,
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
Cecil Taylor,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Swans,
Simply Red,
Procol Harum,
Soulsonic Force,
Roxy Music,
the Sonics,
Black Sheep,
Ituana,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.