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 Malaysia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Excepter 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Blues Magoos,
Altered Images,
The Knickerbockers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tomorrow,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Niagra,
H. Thieme,
The Grass Roots,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Darondo,
Goldenarms,
Piero Umiliani,
Ossler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Babytalk,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
PIL,
Iggy Pop,
48th St. Collective,
Black Moon,
Qualms,
Cymande,
Easy Going,
Nils Olav,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Morten Harket,
Joy Division,
Judy Mowatt,
Little Man,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
Interpol,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
China Crisis,
Max Romeo,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Happenings,
Aswad,
New Order,
Accadde A,
Delta 5,
Ice-T,
Fad Gadget,
Dawn Penn,
Sällskapet,
John Cale,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.