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 Guinea-Bissau and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ituana to the funk 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Robert Wyatt,
Kurtis Blow,
Desert Stars,
Girls At Our Best!,
LL Cool J,
Ludus,
The Slits,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Barracudas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lungfish,
Howard Jones,
James White and The Blacks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Litter,
Interpol,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gun Club,
Tres Demented,
Joyce Sims,
Ken Boothe,
Mo-Dettes,
Blancmange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Flag,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sugar Minott,
Skriet,
Cameo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Mills,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ultimate Spinach,
Index,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
Hardrive,
Roxy Music,
Electric Prunes,
the Association,
Spandau Ballet,
The Saints,
Black Pus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mad Mike,
Leonard Cohen,
The Zeros,
Peter & Gordon,
Joy Division,
Pharoah Sanders,
Malaria!,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Deepchord,
Junior Murvin,
The Remains,
The Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fear,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.