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 Albania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skarface to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Jesper Dahlback,
Howard Jones,
Lower 48,
Absolute Body Control,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Busters,
Fugazi,
Audionom,
EPMD,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Circle Jerks,
Ludus,
Bobby Womack,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Outsiders,
The Misunderstood,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Sherman,
The Buckinghams,
Kerri Chandler,
Rosa Yemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Pole,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Goldenarms,
Thompson Twins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Lynne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fad Gadget,
a-ha,
Yellowson,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scan 7,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boz Scaggs,
The Velvet Underground,
The Angels of Light,
Sister Nancy,
Barbara Tucker,
Gabor Szabo,
X-102,
Delta 5,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Half Japanese,
D'Angelo,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.