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 Senegal and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun Ra 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gun Club,
Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
Yaz,
Alison Limerick,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tubeway Army,
Don Cherry,
The Victims,
The Dead C,
The Monochrome Set,
Organ,
Nils Olav,
The Misunderstood,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Aswad,
Scrapy,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Foxx,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Liliput,
The Raincoats,
The Beau Brummels,
Junior Murvin,
Davy DMX,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wally Richardson,
Lindisfarne,
Excepter,
Mars,
The Dirtbombs,
James White and The Blacks,
Sex Pistols,
Symarip,
Subhumans,
Circle Jerks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
New Order,
Electric Prunes,
Altered Images,
Bauhaus,
Grauzone,
Eric Dolphy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Easy Going,
Outsiders,
The Vogues,
Hashim,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tim Buckley,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.