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 Norway and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 CMW to the rock 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Bauhaus,
La Düsseldorf,
Young Marble Giants,
Jeff Mills,
The Move,
Scott Walker,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gun Club,
Siglo XX,
Masters at Work,
Skarface,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Sonics,
Camberwell Now,
The Divine Comedy,
Unrelated Segments,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Neil Young,
Oblivians,
Severed Heads,
Funkadelic,
Dead Boys,
Intrusion,
Radio Birdman,
Chris Corsano,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Negative Approach,
Gregory Isaacs,
Technova,
Livin' Joy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Vogues,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Parry Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erykah Badu,
Fluxion,
Average White Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sällskapet,
MDC,
Popol Vuh,
Max Romeo,
The Busters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bluetip,
Michelle Simonal,
Davy DMX,
Glenn Branca,
The Tremeloes,
Piero Umiliani,
The Walker Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalann,
Marine Girls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ponytail,
Eli Mardock,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.