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 Switzerland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Mexico City and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lungfish to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
X-Ray Spex,
Jerry's Kids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Divine Comedy,
Angry Samoans,
Tomorrow,
Technova,
Skriet,
Roy Ayers,
Minny Pops,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flash Fearless,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Offenders,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Brass Construction,
Wasted Youth,
Motorama,
The Last Poets,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alison Limerick,
Joensuu 1685,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jawbox,
Chris Corsano,
Eurythmics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Iggy Pop,
The Grass Roots,
Zero Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lucky Dragons,
UT,
Gichy Dan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Grauzone,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Suburban Knight,
Quadrant,
Sixth Finger,
Fear,
The Trojans,
The Litter,
Howard Jones,
Grey Daturas,
Ronnie Foster,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.