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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Cal Tjader to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
X-Ray Spex,
Bauhaus,
UT,
FM Einheit,
Rakim,
The Beau Brummels,
Anthony Braxton,
The Happenings,
Make Up,
David Bowie,
Magma,
The Count Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Lightning Bolt,
Section 25,
The J.B.'s,
Scientists,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Womack,
Darondo,
Dave Gahan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arthur Verocai,
Throbbing Gristle,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Babytalk,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ludus,
X-101,
Bootsy Collins,
The Kinks,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Görl,
Sällskapet,
Sun Ra,
Subhumans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wally Richardson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
A Certain Ratio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Youth Brigade,
Warsaw,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Max Romeo,
Hardrive,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonic Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Basic Channel,
Jacques Brel,
Underground Resistance,
Isaac Hayes,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.