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 Eritrea and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 Tres Demented to the grime 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
JFA,
Scan 7,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boredoms,
Smog,
Danielle Patucci,
Fear,
Jandek,
Roxette,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Beau Brummels,
Shoche,
World's Most,
Altered Images,
kango's stein massive,
Hoover,
Arthur Verocai,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Association,
Whodini,
Joyce Sims,
Bang On A Can,
Make Up,
Guru Guru,
Japan,
Yazoo,
The Gladiators,
The Neon Judgement,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Techniques,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Circle Jerks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Leaves,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Barracudas,
Sister Nancy,
The Remains,
Liliput,
Don Cherry,
Faust,
The Blackbyrds,
Porter Ricks,
Bronski Beat,
June of 44,
Absolute Body Control,
Second Layer,
Au Pairs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Mummies,
a-ha,
Hardrive,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.