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 Australia and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare 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 The Happenings to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Dark Day,
Talk Talk,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Goldenarms,
Colin Newman,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Human League,
Erykah Badu,
48th St. Collective,
The Victims,
Lou Reed,
a-ha,
Surgeon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jerry's Kids,
La Düsseldorf,
Scrapy,
AZ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sarah Menescal,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jandek,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Harry Pussy,
The Doors,
Aaron Thompson,
Organ,
Ultra Naté,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joey Negro,
The Knickerbockers,
Bush Tetras,
Subhumans,
Joe Finger,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Livin' Joy,
Erasure,
Sun City Girls,
Basic Channel,
the Association,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Magma,
Lindisfarne,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quantec,
The Leaves,
Japan,
Groovy Waters,
Minny Pops,
Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Human League,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moss Icon,
Au Pairs,
Flipper,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.