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 Samoa and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Jawbox to the jazz 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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Bourne,
Lightning Bolt,
Sam Rivers,
The Remains,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Fania All-Stars,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
Flipper,
Echospace,
Symarip,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Doobie Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Black Flag,
Donny Hathaway,
The Birthday Party,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
Al Stewart,
10cc,
Siglo XX,
The Cowsills,
Connie Case,
Supertramp,
Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dead C,
Amon Düül,
The Standells,
Masters at Work,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Busters,
Peter & Gordon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Beau Brummels,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
Negative Approach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Spandau Ballet,
Easy Going,
Lyres,
New York Dolls,
Slick Rick,
Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye.
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.