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 Malawi and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Monolake to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Dennis Brown,
Rod Modell,
Kas Product,
Aloha Tigers,
Ludus,
The Trojans,
Suicide,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Audionom,
Gang Green,
Khruangbin,
Japan,
Sex Pistols,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Porter Ricks,
Minnie Riperton,
Albert Ayler,
Gong,
Aaron Thompson,
Matthew Halsall,
Al Stewart,
Section 25,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sonic Youth,
Oblivians,
Gichy Dan,
Q and Not U,
The New Christs,
Jacques Brel,
Derrick Morgan,
John Holt,
John Lydon,
Zero Boys,
Basic Channel,
The Happenings,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jawbox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stiv Bators,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Fania All-Stars,
The J.B.'s,
The Dead C,
The Associates,
Charles Mingus,
Gabor Szabo,
Banda Bassotti,
Von Mondo,
Sight & Sound,
The Gladiators,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Starr,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Drexciya,
Unwound,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.