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 Brunei and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Chrome to the electroclash 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
The Golliwogs,
Hot Snakes,
Japan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare,
Soft Cell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
ABC,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roxy Music,
Royal Trux,
Monolake,
Moby Grape,
The Tremeloes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Görl,
the Soft Cell,
Gang of Four,
The Sonics,
Chris & Cosey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Outsiders,
Wally Richardson,
Von Mondo,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Wyatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sex Pistols,
The Cramps,
Brothers Johnson,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Birthday Party,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Prunes,
The Wake,
Sparks,
The Blackbyrds,
Ultravox,
Mantronix,
The Smoke,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Quantec,
The Knickerbockers,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gladiators,
In Retrospect,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.