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 Taipei.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Ronnie Foster to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Johnny Osbourne,
Half Japanese,
Hashim,
Colin Newman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camberwell Now,
Byron Stingily,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Misunderstood,
Camouflage,
Panda Bear,
Godley & Creme,
Erykah Badu,
Scott Walker,
Average White Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Zapp,
Lyres,
The Barracudas,
Japan,
Sex Pistols,
Cybotron,
Man Parrish,
Sight & Sound,
Hoover,
Spandau Ballet,
Glenn Branca,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Duran Duran,
Arab on Radar,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Idris Muhammad,
CMW,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun City Girls,
Procol Harum,
Index,
a-ha,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lower 48,
Jerry's Kids,
Donald Byrd,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
Ohio Players,
the Normal,
Flipper,
FM Einheit,
cv313,
Max Romeo,
The Neon Judgement,
Sound Behaviour,
Wasted Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dead Boys,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.