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 Ireland and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare 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 Jandek to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
the Slits,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cybotron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Shuggie Otis,
Metal Thangz,
The Walker Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Rhythm & Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Niagra,
Girls At Our Best!,
These Immortal Souls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Alphaville,
The Trojans,
Nas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Swans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Echospace,
Yusef Lateef,
Alison Limerick,
X-102,
The Golliwogs,
The Toasters,
The Pop Group,
Yellowson,
Fela Kuti,
Supertramp,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gerry Rafferty,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nik Kershaw,
Junior Murvin,
L. Decosne,
Freddie Wadling,
Alice Coltrane,
Symarip,
the Sonics,
The Cowsills,
Hoover,
Lou Christie,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fugs,
Sex Pistols,
Joyce Sims,
Jacob Miller,
Harmonia,
Agitation Free,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mark Hollis,
U.S. Maple,
Public Enemy,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.