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 Korea South and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Arcadia to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Joe Finger,
Minnie Riperton,
The Doobie Brothers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New York Dolls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun City Girls,
Howard Jones,
Barry Ungar,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
The J.B.'s,
Quando Quango,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Stooges,
Gong,
The Martian,
Rekid,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris & Cosey,
CMW,
Kenny Larkin,
Scan 7,
the Human League,
Janne Schatter,
Andrew Hill,
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
the Sonics,
Yazoo,
Kas Product,
Funky Four + One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
E-Dancer,
Hasil Adkins,
Toni Rubio,
Moebius,
the Swans,
Stiv Bators,
Unrelated Segments,
Ituana,
Soulsonic Force,
The Offenders,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terry Callier,
Oblivians,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Vainqueur,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amazonics,
Susan Cadogan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shuggie Otis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Al Stewart,
Symarip,
Ice-T,
The Pop Group,
10cc,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Order,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.