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 Kenya and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 guitar 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 Half Japanese to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Chrome,
Excepter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Urselle,
Sällskapet,
Supertramp,
The Happenings,
Scratch Acid,
Aloha Tigers,
Public Enemy,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
Subhumans,
CMW,
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric Copeland,
The American Breed,
Stetsasonic,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra,
Tim Buckley,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Josef K,
Tommy Roe,
The Dirtbombs,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Seeds,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Techniques,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tears for Fears,
Ituana,
Khruangbin,
Howard Jones,
Radiopuhelimet,
Morten Harket,
Camouflage,
Matthew Halsall,
Alison Limerick,
Brass Construction,
The Mojo Men,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
Von Mondo,
Television Personalities,
Metal Thangz,
Theoretical Girls,
MDC,
The Raincoats,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Letta Mbulu,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.