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 Chile and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Zeros to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Mary Jane Girls,
KRS-One,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Au Pairs,
This Heat,
Camberwell Now,
Depeche Mode,
R.M.O.,
Letta Mbulu,
Ludus,
Sparks,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
Camouflage,
The Move,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Moleskins,
Alton Ellis,
The Saints,
Hashim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moebius,
Little Man,
Spoonie Gee,
Index,
The Young Rascals,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Infiniti,
Josef K,
Wally Richardson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fortunes,
The Leaves,
Siglo XX,
The Dirtbombs,
Audionom,
Joe Smooth,
The Selecter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Moon,
Roxy Music,
The Electric Prunes,
Make Up,
Magma,
The Doors,
Fear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Spandau Ballet,
Rod Modell,
The Dead C,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bad Manners,
Hoover,
The Angels of Light,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Vogues,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.