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 Guyana and from Taipei.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Metal Thangz to the rap 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warren Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
the Normal,
The American Breed,
Ludus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sam Rivers,
Arthur Verocai,
Underground Resistance,
Archie Shepp,
The Cure,
Porter Ricks,
Grey Daturas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
MC5,
The Doors,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
Suburban Knight,
R.M.O.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Drexciya,
The Victims,
The Birthday Party,
Unrelated Segments,
Q65,
The J.B.'s,
Wasted Youth,
OOIOO,
Marshall Jefferson,
Outsiders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Sheep,
Organ,
Schoolly D,
Suicide,
Wings,
The Offenders,
Stetsasonic,
Anthony Braxton,
Minny Pops,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Michelle Simonal,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Black Dice,
Eddi Front,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Near,
Kurtis Blow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Stooges,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
Roxette,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Iggy Pop,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.