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 Ethiopia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Carl Craig to the dance 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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba 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?
Johnny Osbourne,
Icehouse,
The Mojo Men,
The Misunderstood,
Rotary Connection,
The Modern Lovers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Wings,
Technova,
Infiniti,
The Residents,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Trojans,
The Black Dice,
Laurel Aitken,
Minny Pops,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
The Divine Comedy,
Camberwell Now,
Smog,
Nils Olav,
FM Einheit,
Quantec,
The Monochrome Set,
Panda Bear,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
Wolf Eyes,
MDC,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jawbox,
Thee Headcoats,
Eurythmics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Danielle Patucci,
The Toasters,
Stiv Bators,
Boredoms,
Section 25,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ralphi Rosario,
Easy Going,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eddi Front,
Radiohead,
Underground Resistance,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ponytail,
Guru Guru,
Amazonics,
Brass Construction,
Pharoah Sanders,
Intrusion,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.