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 Uganda and from Madrid.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 The Sonics to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Piero Umiliani,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Guru Guru,
Joensuu 1685,
Saccharine Trust,
8 Eyed Spy,
DNA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rotary Connection,
The Dead C,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mandrill,
The American Breed,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Drexciya,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Swell Maps,
Albert Ayler,
Sixth Finger,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Lyres,
Stetsasonic,
Flash Fearless,
Supertramp,
Severed Heads,
Lower 48,
Al Stewart,
The Slackers,
Ponytail,
Wally Richardson,
One Last Wish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Main Source,
T.S.O.L.,
Public Image Ltd.,
kango's stein massive,
Accadde A,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gun Club,
The Gories,
Altered Images,
Soft Cell,
Simply Red,
In Retrospect,
Mark Hollis,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Black Dice,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Judy Mowatt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roxette,
EPMD,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.