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 France and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Josef K to the grunge 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Au Pairs,
Visage,
The Saints,
Janne Schatter,
Drexciya,
Throbbing Gristle,
Motorama,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cal Tjader,
Albert Ayler,
Gregory Isaacs,
Accadde A,
Swell Maps,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bronski Beat,
Colin Newman,
The Trojans,
Faraquet,
Siglo XX,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q65,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
Neu!,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Busters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Motions,
The Birthday Party,
the Slits,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barrington Levy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
The Monks,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Porter Ricks,
Jawbox,
Joy Division,
the Association,
Eric Copeland,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Make Up,
Judy Mowatt,
the Soft Cell,
Ice-T,
The Blackbyrds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bill Wells,
X-101,
The Residents,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.