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 Chile and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 CMW to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale 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 '80s 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Lucky Dragons,
Freddie Wadling,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Leonard Cohen,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ronnie Foster,
Max Romeo,
Prince Buster,
The Smoke,
New York Dolls,
The Index,
The Kinks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cameo,
The Black Dice,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Rekid,
Boogie Down Productions,
Boredoms,
The Fall,
Aloha Tigers,
Aural Exciters,
John Lydon,
The Selecter,
Pagans,
Average White Band,
Dark Day,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Tim Buckley,
OOIOO,
Intrusion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kurtis Blow,
Graham Central Station,
Pantaleimon,
Popol Vuh,
Hasil Adkins,
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
In Retrospect,
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
Tommy Roe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Slits,
Electric Prunes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nick Fraelich,
D'Angelo,
The Pop Group,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.