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 Sudan 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nick Fraelich to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Alton Ellis,
Jandek,
Smog,
ABC,
The Moody Blues,
The Selecter,
Essential Logic,
Deadbeat,
The Star Department,
Ponytail,
Agitation Free,
These Immortal Souls,
La Düsseldorf,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
Loose Ends,
the Germs,
The Monks,
The Techniques,
Todd Terry,
The Angels of Light,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
Easy Going,
PIL,
Minutemen,
The Knickerbockers,
Amazonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Howard Jones,
This Heat,
Mark Hollis,
Neu!,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kenny Larkin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Derrick May,
Mission of Burma,
Inner City,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Barracudas,
Barbara Tucker,
John Lydon,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Au Pairs,
The Beau Brummels,
Los Fastidios,
Eve St. Jones,
Lindisfarne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Josef K,
The Evens,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Trojans,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.