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 Japan and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Public Enemy to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Godley & Creme,
Nirvana,
Spoonie Gee,
Underground Resistance,
One Last Wish,
Interpol,
Liliput,
The Smiths,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Moleskins,
James White and The Blacks,
The Motions,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Stooges,
Trumans Water,
Saccharine Trust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Heaven 17,
The Associates,
The Doors,
X-Ray Spex,
Boz Scaggs,
Camberwell Now,
10cc,
Sällskapet,
Lalann,
Clear Light,
Davy DMX,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rekid,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Von Mondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Rundgren,
Fifty Foot Hose,
New Age Steppers,
Funkadelic,
Robert Wyatt,
kango's stein massive,
Black Flag,
Joe Finger,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cymande,
Moby Grape,
the Germs,
The Last Poets,
CMW,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fugazi,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yellowson,
AZ,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Happenings,
Thompson Twins,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.