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 Taiwan and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Public Image Ltd. 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Porter Ricks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Babytalk,
Niagra,
New Order,
Television,
Scientists,
Al Stewart,
Outsiders,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Leaves,
The Slits,
The Misunderstood,
The Modern Lovers,
F. McDonald,
Warsaw,
The Wake,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
Lower 48,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
Derrick Morgan,
Unwound,
Icehouse,
Intrusion,
Godley & Creme,
Sex Pistols,
The Walker Brothers,
Crime,
Vainqueur,
Moby Grape,
Mo-Dettes,
Pantytec,
Kaleidoscope,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Panda Bear,
Flipper,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blues Magoos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sparks,
Marvin Gaye,
The Human League,
Sällskapet,
The Gories,
The Names,
Talk Talk,
Bush Tetras,
Stereo Dub,
Thompson Twins,
Kerri Chandler,
the Swans,
Bill Near,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.