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 Madagascar and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Swans to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
E-Dancer,
Skarface,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bootsy Collins,
Anthony Braxton,
Pulsallama,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quando Quango,
Gong,
Lalann,
Graham Central Station,
Black Moon,
Letta Mbulu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mission of Burma,
Terrestrial Tones,
Yusef Lateef,
The Martian,
Bill Near,
Essential Logic,
Maurizio,
ABBA,
Main Source,
Curtis Mayfield,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sister Nancy,
Fluxion,
X-102,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Adolescents,
Ken Boothe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
This Heat,
Popol Vuh,
Roger Hodgson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gories,
Black Pus,
Massinfluence,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sonic Youth,
Thompson Twins,
Depeche Mode,
Jawbox,
Deepchord,
Arcadia,
A Certain Ratio,
Das Ding,
Brothers Johnson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bang On A Can,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Hill,
Ice-T,
Marmalade,
The Walker Brothers,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.