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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Oblivians to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
D'Angelo,
Minnie Riperton,
Monks,
Patti Smith,
Pole,
China Crisis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Association,
New Order,
Zapp,
Drexciya,
MC5,
Sandy B,
The Alarm Clocks,
X-101,
Steve Hackett,
Fatback Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pussy Galore,
Spoonie Gee,
John Foxx,
The Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skaos,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
Television,
Pylon,
Bobby Womack,
Eric Dolphy,
The Real Kids,
Adolescents,
Gerry Rafferty,
DNA,
Hot Snakes,
Gabor Szabo,
Suburban Knight,
Todd Terry,
DJ Style,
Tomorrow,
Morten Harket,
Minor Threat,
The Techniques,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Terry Callier,
Bill Near,
Aswad,
Ultra Naté,
Alison Limerick,
The Raincoats,
Neu!,
Deadbeat,
The Leaves,
Scion,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.