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 Bhutan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum 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 Cluster to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Donny Hathaway,
Youth Brigade,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cameo,
Iggy Pop,
Nils Olav,
The Techniques,
Wire,
Agent Orange,
Joy Division,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jandek,
Newcleus,
Scan 7,
Joyce Sims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
U.S. Maple,
Peter and Kerry,
Adolescents,
Joe Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Zeros,
Bang On A Can,
Byron Stingily,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Tom Boy,
Echospace,
Whodini,
Neu!,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxy Music,
Mantronix,
Suicide,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed,
Minnie Riperton,
Ralphi Rosario,
Boogie Down Productions,
Depeche Mode,
Drexciya,
Mars,
Laurel Aitken,
the Sonics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Suburban Knight,
Vainqueur,
Circle Jerks,
Jacques Brel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Brick,
Throbbing Gristle,
Funky Four + One,
June Days,
Bobby Womack,
The Smoke,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.