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 India and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
The Residents,
Dual Sessions,
cv313,
David McCallum,
Faraquet,
The American Breed,
Visage,
Charles Mingus,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camberwell Now,
Freddie Wadling,
Sällskapet,
Eve St. Jones,
Howard Jones,
Nils Olav,
The Names,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
Scion,
Fugazi,
Trumans Water,
The Toasters,
The Flesh Eaters,
Quadrant,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fat Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Monolake,
Franke,
The Red Krayola,
Pylon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monochrome Set,
Bush Tetras,
The Saints,
Marmalade,
Young Marble Giants,
Josef K,
Man Parrish,
Mr. Review,
The Searchers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Bill Wells,
Eden Ahbez,
Chrome,
Marc Almond,
Audionom,
The Buckinghams,
New Age Steppers,
The Dirtbombs,
Donald Byrd,
The Fall,
Make Up,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Slits,
Darondo,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.