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 United States 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Easy Going to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Harmonia,
Delon & Dalcan,
MC5,
James White and The Blacks,
Scott Walker,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
The Durutti Column,
Roxy Music,
Warsaw,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Walker Brothers,
Nick Fraelich,
Skriet,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Starr,
Henry Cow,
Joe Finger,
Bluetip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DJ Style,
The Real Kids,
Black Moon,
Sarah Menescal,
Alison Limerick,
Agitation Free,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Christie,
the Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
The Victims,
Hardrive,
Neu!,
Young Marble Giants,
Jacob Miller,
The Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Remains,
Cluster,
Laurel Aitken,
Sällskapet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scion,
Sonic Youth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suicide,
Youth Brigade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Clear Light,
Gerry Rafferty,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moss Icon,
Crime,
Camberwell Now,
Boredoms,
L. Decosne,
The Birthday Party,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.