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 Kazakhstan and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Television to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Lungfish,
EPMD,
Lindisfarne,
Silicon Teens,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Technova,
Excepter,
Jandek,
Deadbeat,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sandy B,
Judy Mowatt,
The Music Machine,
Ituana,
Throbbing Gristle,
Funkadelic,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Saints,
10cc,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roger Hodgson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pussy Galore,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blancmange,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wally Richardson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camberwell Now,
Swans,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Leonard Cohen,
Juan Atkins,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Görl,
David Axelrod,
Gregory Isaacs,
F. McDonald,
The United States of America,
Make Up,
E-Dancer,
Moss Icon,
The Real Kids,
Cluster,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Todd Terry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Agitation Free,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ludus,
the Association,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
Alton Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Panda Bear,
Dead Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Nico,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.