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 Liberia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin 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 Nik Kershaw to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Depeche Mode,
Duran Duran,
ABC,
The Dead C,
Dark Day,
Thee Headcoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Reuben Wilson,
Prince Buster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jandek,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sound,
Ituana,
the Germs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Newcleus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eric Dolphy,
Bad Manners,
James White and The Blacks,
Harry Pussy,
MC5,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Boredoms,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
cv313,
Main Source,
Skriet,
the Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Finger,
UT,
The Blackbyrds,
Crispy Ambulance,
DJ Sneak,
David Axelrod,
L. Decosne,
Dead Boys,
Malaria!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultra Naté,
This Heat,
Dual Sessions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
R.M.O.,
Glenn Branca,
Scratch Acid,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harmonia,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moss Icon,
Eric Copeland,
Gichy Dan,
Joy Division,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.