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 Iran and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sarah Menescal to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Nirvana,
Glenn Branca,
Blossom Toes,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Sherman,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Zapp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Moss Icon,
Hot Snakes,
The Monochrome Set,
DJ Style,
Eurythmics,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Swans,
Aural Exciters,
Aaron Thompson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Derrick May,
The Wake,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Inner City,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
The Buckinghams,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marine Girls,
Y Pants,
David Axelrod,
The Index,
Skriet,
The Searchers,
The Raincoats,
Lungfish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Graham Central Station,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gladiators,
Roxette,
Animal Collective,
Rapeman,
Morten Harket,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sonics,
Soft Cell,
June Days,
The Pop Group,
Curtis Mayfield,
Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joyce Sims,
Sixth Finger,
Johnny Clarke,
Guru Guru,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tres Demented,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Trojans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.