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 Guatemala and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Pagans to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Make Up,
The Modern Lovers,
Brick,
Inner City,
The Happenings,
Minny Pops,
Roxette,
Ultimate Spinach,
Second Layer,
The Dirtbombs,
Ossler,
Joe Smooth,
D'Angelo,
Robert Hood,
Morten Harket,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Cameo,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fugs,
Procol Harum,
Alton Ellis,
Albert Ayler,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Remains,
Youth Brigade,
Scrapy,
Wolf Eyes,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül II,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Index,
Section 25,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
T.S.O.L.,
Hoover,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
The Durutti Column,
Todd Terry,
Negative Approach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sandy B,
Lalann,
Kerri Chandler,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Max Romeo,
Babytalk,
The Buckinghams,
Mars,
John Cale,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bang On A Can,
Technova,
Vainqueur,
Interpol,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.