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 Belgium and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb 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 Jeru the Damaja to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Zapp,
Blancmange,
Roy Ayers,
Kas Product,
Ludus,
Heaven 17,
Boz Scaggs,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
The Human League,
Lower 48,
kango's stein massive,
U.S. Maple,
The Fall,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxette,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moby Grape,
World's Most,
The Remains,
Model 500,
the Bar-Kays,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonic Youth,
Groovy Waters,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Velvet Underground,
The Saints,
The Sound,
Au Pairs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tubeway Army,
The Knickerbockers,
Brass Construction,
Quantec,
Cybotron,
Matthew Bourne,
Outsiders,
The Associates,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Real Kids,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Traffic Nightmare,
Malaria!,
Hot Snakes,
Janne Schatter,
Das Ding,
Franke,
Technova,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Invisible,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Fania All-Stars,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.