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 Haiti and from New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
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 organ 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 Curtis Mayfield to the jazz 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Slick Rick,
Sandy B,
Brand Nubian,
John Foxx,
Eddi Front,
Sun Ra,
E-Dancer,
Scion,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sixth Finger,
The Knickerbockers,
Isaac Hayes,
Pole,
The Human League,
Moby Grape,
Tubeway Army,
Siglo XX,
Vainqueur,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sister Nancy,
Colin Newman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
In Retrospect,
The Dave Clark Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Coltrane,
Silicon Teens,
Saccharine Trust,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jawbox,
Newcleus,
The Slackers,
Groovy Waters,
the Soft Cell,
Connie Case,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Near,
R.M.O.,
Shoche,
The Blues Magoos,
The Young Rascals,
Gabor Szabo,
The Wake,
The Dead C,
This Heat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tim Buckley,
Audionom,
Godley & Creme,
Subhumans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marmalade,
Fear,
Ornette Coleman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Modern Lovers,
Joy Division,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.