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 Bangladesh and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 H. Thieme to the grime 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Peter & Gordon,
Cheater Slicks,
The Grass Roots,
The J.B.'s,
David Bowie,
Josef K,
Smog,
Sparks,
Sarah Menescal,
ABBA,
Massinfluence,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
FM Einheit,
Technova,
Sex Pistols,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Vainqueur,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Germs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ohio Players,
Cluster,
Audionom,
The Trojans,
L. Decosne,
Pussy Galore,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Blackbyrds,
Schoolly D,
One Last Wish,
Television,
The Fire Engines,
Echospace,
Metal Thangz,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
Brass Construction,
Aswad,
The Shadows of Knight,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kayak,
The Doobie Brothers,
New Order,
Stetsasonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deadbeat,
Con Funk Shun,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barrington Levy,
Hot Snakes,
The Wake,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.