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 Burkina 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Laurel Aitken to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Alton Ellis,
Kas Product,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Average White Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Buckinghams,
The Vogues,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
These Immortal Souls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thee Headcoats,
PIL,
Animal Collective,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Selecter,
Todd Rundgren,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Invisible,
The Gun Club,
The Moody Blues,
Nico,
CMW,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Bar-Kays,
June Days,
The Skatalites,
Steve Hackett,
Nils Olav,
Pulsallama,
Con Funk Shun,
Royal Trux,
The Offenders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeff Lynne,
Fear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minny Pops,
Godley & Creme,
Arab on Radar,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New York Dolls,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
The Mummies,
Goldenarms,
Bill Wells,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-102,
Minor Threat,
The Martian,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Foxx,
DNA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
Mandrill,
Alphaville,
Symarip,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.