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 Micronesia and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the electroclash 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Womack,
Gregory Isaacs,
Excepter,
World's Most,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
The Pretty Things,
Bill Wells,
Saccharine Trust,
Mark Hollis,
Maurizio,
Marvin Gaye,
The Sonics,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brothers Johnson,
Outsiders,
The Fall,
Janne Schatter,
Black Pus,
Section 25,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Metal Thangz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Clear Light,
Loose Ends,
Minny Pops,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispy Ambulance,
Boogie Down Productions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gastr Del Sol,
Laurel Aitken,
Gang Green,
Radiopuhelimet,
Simply Red,
John Foxx,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
The Cramps,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Iggy Pop,
Fugazi,
MDC,
Freddie Wadling,
The Grass Roots,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
D'Angelo,
Harmonia,
Throbbing Gristle,
Buzzcocks,
Arab on Radar,
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions,
Desert Stars,
Pussy Galore,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental 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.