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 Gambia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Faust to the grunge 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
Underground Resistance,
Quando Quango,
Jeff Mills,
Nas,
Gabor Szabo,
New Order,
Scion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Make Up,
Motorama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Franke,
Skaos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
Youth Brigade,
Easy Going,
Josef K,
Neil Young,
Joy Division,
Robert Wyatt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
Mars,
Dark Day,
The Litter,
Gang Gang Dance,
Banda Bassotti,
Wasted Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crooked Eye,
Prince Buster,
John Coltrane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Danielle Patucci,
Electric Prunes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lucky Dragons,
These Immortal Souls,
Loose Ends,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Adolescents,
Eurythmics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sex Pistols,
Niagra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
Dennis Brown,
Pantytec,
Mark Hollis,
Don Cherry,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.