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 Brazil and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jesper Dahlback to the electroclash 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sparks,
Black Sheep,
Essential Logic,
Schoolly D,
Derrick May,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joe Finger,
Intrusion,
Franke,
Camberwell Now,
Model 500,
Fat Boys,
Slave,
Adolescents,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eurythmics,
EPMD,
Tubeway Army,
Swans,
Faust,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Duran Duran,
Ken Boothe,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cybotron,
Bobby Sherman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Glenn Branca,
K-Klass,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mad Mike,
Judy Mowatt,
The Zeros,
Blancmange,
Khruangbin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Reagan Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Depeche Mode,
Urselle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roger Hodgson,
The Raincoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
E-Dancer,
Slick Rick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suicide,
The Kinks,
Nick Fraelich,
Zero Boys,
The Motions,
Davy DMX,
Boz Scaggs,
Procol Harum,
Roxy Music,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.