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 Namibia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Toni Rubio to the dance 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Saccharine Trust,
Whodini,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
MC5,
Drive Like Jehu,
Slick Rick,
Masters at Work,
Scratch Acid,
Soft Cell,
The Busters,
China Crisis,
The Searchers,
Cymande,
The Buckinghams,
Suburban Knight,
The Monochrome Set,
Circle Jerks,
Isaac Hayes,
T.S.O.L.,
the Sonics,
cv313,
Massinfluence,
Black Pus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Slits,
Alton Ellis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yazoo,
Supertramp,
James White and The Blacks,
The Offenders,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Smooth,
Vainqueur,
Flipper,
The American Breed,
The United States of America,
Funky Four + One,
The Selecter,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gladiators,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lightning Bolt,
The Seeds,
Thee Headcoats,
Nils Olav,
E-Dancer,
Arthur Verocai,
Faraquet,
Arcadia,
Icehouse,
The Residents,
Guru Guru,
Barry Ungar,
Minutemen,
Sun Ra,
Stetsasonic,
The Electric Prunes,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.