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 Italy and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kas Product to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roy Ayers,
Gichy Dan,
Barry Ungar,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
The Red Krayola,
Neu!,
Public Enemy,
Desert Stars,
The Zeros,
Oneida,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Reuben Wilson,
Stiv Bators,
Flash Fearless,
Vainqueur,
Scan 7,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Harmonia,
Visage,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gladiators,
Maleditus Sound,
Dave Gahan,
The Motions,
Masters at Work,
Gang Starr,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Angels of Light,
Sandy B,
Rekid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mr. Review,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dawn Penn,
The Mojo Men,
Ultravox,
The Techniques,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Busters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Vogues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Make Up,
Supertramp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
UT,
Albert Ayler,
The Count Five,
Mantronix,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Dead C,
Scion,
Crooked Eye,
E-Dancer,
MC5,
James White and The Blacks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.