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 Mozambique and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum 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 Graham Central Station to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Young Marble Giants,
Tres Demented,
Depeche Mode,
KRS-One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Eli Mardock,
Piero Umiliani,
Jimmy McGriff,
Magma,
Max Romeo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eurythmics,
Arcadia,
Half Japanese,
David Axelrod,
Sparks,
Tommy Roe,
Minor Threat,
The Blackbyrds,
H. Thieme,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
Thee Headcoats,
Boz Scaggs,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Starr,
Joyce Sims,
Fatback Band,
The Martian,
Lungfish,
Ultravox,
The Tremeloes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jacques Brel,
Camberwell Now,
The Remains,
Kurtis Blow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Youth Brigade,
Can,
Schoolly D,
Reagan Youth,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultra Naté,
Oneida,
Camouflage,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soft Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Nico,
Cameo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brick,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.