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 France and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Quadrant to the disco 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Camberwell Now,
Lakeside,
Television,
Susan Cadogan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slackers,
Fela Kuti,
kango's stein massive,
Slick Rick,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crispy Ambulance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerrie Biddell,
Morten Harket,
PIL,
Rufus Thomas,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Byrd,
Ponytail,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rakim,
Moebius,
Tres Demented,
Stockholm Monsters,
Arcadia,
Harpers Bizarre,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tommy Roe,
Schoolly D,
Soul II Soul,
Ronan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Altered Images,
Ornette Coleman,
Sonic Youth,
Andrew Hill,
Minor Threat,
Fluxion,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pylon,
Godley & Creme,
The Blues Magoos,
The Smiths,
Cheater Slicks,
Arab on Radar,
Connie Case,
Glambeats Corp.,
New York Dolls,
Black Pus,
The J.B.'s,
Half Japanese,
The Wake,
Bob Dylan,
Rites of Spring,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.