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 Croatia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Flipper to the techno 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Style,
B.T. Express,
Adolescents,
Laurel Aitken,
Agent Orange,
Organ,
Iggy Pop,
Prince Buster,
Sexual Harrassment,
Easy Going,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick May,
Bootsy Collins,
World's Most,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Barbara Tucker,
ABBA,
The Vogues,
Gong,
Franke,
Scrapy,
Terry Callier,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pantaleimon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Nick Fraelich,
Mars,
Los Fastidios,
Guru Guru,
Funky Four + One,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pole,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
T.S.O.L.,
Kurtis Blow,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Human League,
Surgeon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camberwell Now,
UT,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Liliput,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fela Kuti,
Crooked Eye,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fifty Foot Hose,
X-101,
Au Pairs,
the Soft Cell,
Delta 5,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.