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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 MC5 to the rap 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mandrill,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Reed,
Kenny Larkin,
Wally Richardson,
cv313,
PIL,
Amazonics,
The Human League,
Ultravox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
Tim Buckley,
Oneida,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Mills,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Hasil Adkins,
Bizarre Inc.,
L. Decosne,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Max Romeo,
The Fall,
Radio Birdman,
The Searchers,
John Lydon,
Anakelly,
Marmalade,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Excepter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tomorrow,
Hoover,
The Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Essential Logic,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kayak,
Camouflage,
Malaria!,
Monolake,
Tubeway Army,
Pharoah Sanders,
Don Cherry,
Leonard Cohen,
Matthew Halsall,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Josef K,
Letta Mbulu,
JFA,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.