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 Dominican Republic and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Monks to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Associates,
Hardrive,
Animal Collective,
Traffic Nightmare,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fear,
E-Dancer,
The Cure,
Nico,
Jacob Miller,
Donny Hathaway,
Pulsallama,
The Angels of Light,
Tears for Fears,
Monks,
Masters at Work,
Cheater Slicks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Newcleus,
The Pretty Things,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Von Mondo,
Buzzcocks,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxy Music,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Christie,
KRS-One,
The Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
The Electric Prunes,
Gabor Szabo,
Drexciya,
Sight & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
John Lydon,
Los Fastidios,
Carl Craig,
Excepter,
EPMD,
Porter Ricks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Maleditus Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Brothers Johnson,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
D'Angelo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moody Blues,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Zeros,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.