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 Turkey and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 chamberlin 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 Bill Near to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
LL Cool J,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultra Naté,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Max Romeo,
JFA,
Das Ding,
Youth Brigade,
The Walker Brothers,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
Skaos,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
Rites of Spring,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gap Band,
PIL,
The Moleskins,
Arthur Verocai,
Henry Cow,
Godley & Creme,
Althea and Donna,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Saccharine Trust,
The Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echospace,
Ohio Players,
Soulsonic Force,
Vainqueur,
Fifty Foot Hose,
China Crisis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Electric Prunes,
The Selecter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sound Behaviour,
James White and The Blacks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Charles Mingus,
Al Stewart,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flash Fearless,
a-ha,
Tears for Fears,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Sheep,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
One Last Wish,
Little Man,
Liliput,
Hardrive,
Big Daddy Kane,
X-101,
Reuben Wilson,
Bush Tetras,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.