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 Guinea-Bissau and from New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronan to the techno 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cowsills,
Gichy Dan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Neon Judgement,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultra Naté,
Glenn Branca,
X-102,
Stereo Dub,
Man Eating Sloth,
Swell Maps,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Rosa Yemen,
Blake Baxter,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Normal,
Scientists,
Cameo,
Mo-Dettes,
The Blues Magoos,
Crispy Ambulance,
Technova,
Japan,
Scott Walker,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kenny Larkin,
Panda Bear,
Jerry's Kids,
Mission of Burma,
The Remains,
Minor Threat,
The Slackers,
Don Cherry,
Howard Jones,
The Invisible,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Buckinghams,
One Last Wish,
Nas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nick Fraelich,
Pussy Galore,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ralphi Rosario,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rhythm & Sound,
Malaria!,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.