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 Chad and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar 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 Funky Four + One to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Motions,
Basic Channel,
Letta Mbulu,
T.S.O.L.,
Ken Boothe,
Mo-Dettes,
Simply Red,
Au Pairs,
Terry Callier,
Byron Stingily,
Talk Talk,
Peter and Kerry,
Glenn Branca,
Public Image Ltd.,
Delta 5,
Susan Cadogan,
Oblivians,
Sugar Minott,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The J.B.'s,
The Seeds,
Black Flag,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
D'Angelo,
X-Ray Spex,
The Shadows of Knight,
Toni Rubio,
Scan 7,
The Standells,
Amon Düül,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Litter,
A Certain Ratio,
Dave Gahan,
Tommy Roe,
The Zeros,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Associates,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Interpol,
Eurythmics,
Dawn Penn,
Nas,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed,
H. Thieme,
the Human League,
John Foxx,
Skarface,
Roxette,
Matthew Bourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hasil Adkins,
Newcleus,
Johnny Clarke,
Scrapy,
Silicon Teens,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.