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 Yemen and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Bobby Womack to the electroclash 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Yaz,
The Techniques,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grey Daturas,
the Sonics,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cluster,
Robert Görl,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Near,
Das Ding,
The Moleskins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Cal Tjader,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rod Modell,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker,
The Searchers,
the Soft Cell,
Joey Negro,
The Dirtbombs,
Scientists,
Tim Buckley,
Darondo,
The Cure,
Schoolly D,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sparks,
Q65,
Absolute Body Control,
Section 25,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Al Stewart,
Big Daddy Kane,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
Pantytec,
Neil Young,
Charles Mingus,
Au Pairs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roy Ayers,
The Velvet Underground,
Soft Machine,
E-Dancer,
Anakelly,
Niagra,
Joy Division,
Eddi Front,
Lower 48,
Half Japanese,
The Dave Clark Five,
Zapp,
Rites of Spring,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bad Manners,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.