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 Colombia and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 güiro 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 Wire to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Deakin,
Public Enemy,
Niagra,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
Iggy Pop,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Metal Thangz,
Quantec,
Chris & Cosey,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Clear Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Franke,
Albert Ayler,
Eric Dolphy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Infiniti,
The Smiths,
The Toasters,
The American Breed,
One Last Wish,
The Fortunes,
Fugazi,
Zero Boys,
Motorama,
The Doobie Brothers,
The United States of America,
The Raincoats,
Whodini,
Sam Rivers,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
Ronan,
Yaz,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harmonia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moss Icon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The Modern Lovers,
Kayak,
Sugar Minott,
Neil Young,
Moby Grape,
Black Flag,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pierre Henry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.