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 Albania and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Toni Rubio to the rap 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
MC5,
Dennis Brown,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Funkadelic,
Main Source,
Lightning Bolt,
Warsaw,
Fad Gadget,
Pantaleimon,
Swell Maps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grandmaster Flash,
Babytalk,
The Vogues,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Wake,
The Tremeloes,
Fluxion,
The Beau Brummels,
Neil Young,
Charles Mingus,
The Durutti Column,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Banda Bassotti,
Frankie Knuckles,
Zero Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
R.M.O.,
Aural Exciters,
The Star Department,
Skarface,
Joe Smooth,
The Blues Magoos,
Infiniti,
X-102,
Technova,
The Neon Judgement,
Althea and Donna,
Donald Byrd,
Nico,
The Flesh Eaters,
Thompson Twins,
Kerri Chandler,
Quando Quango,
Minny Pops,
the Bar-Kays,
Crime,
Animal Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Remains,
The Mummies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nas,
Hot Snakes,
Bronski Beat,
Grey Daturas,
Deakin,
Motorama,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.