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 Grenada and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soul Sonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu 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 '50s 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 Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amazonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
D'Angelo,
Second Layer,
The Star Department,
The Martian,
Roxy Music,
Porter Ricks,
Erasure,
Sight & Sound,
Ten City,
Royal Trux,
Scientists,
John Holt,
Shoche,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Victims,
Amon Düül,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Archie Shepp,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Birthday Party,
Heaven 17,
Faraquet,
Bronski Beat,
Patti Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neu!,
Yazoo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
June of 44,
Jeff Mills,
Guru Guru,
Scan 7,
Marc Almond,
Charles Mingus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
X-102,
DJ Sneak,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Litter,
Radiohead,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Ludus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.