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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Sight & Sound to the electroclash 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Franke,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Donald Byrd,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sam Rivers,
Mantronix,
Roxy Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
Model 500,
The Electric Prunes,
Scientists,
Neil Young,
Kurtis Blow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fugs,
The Cowsills,
Can,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gap Band,
Don Cherry,
Jandek,
FM Einheit,
Marine Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Archie Shepp,
La Düsseldorf,
Minutemen,
Rotary Connection,
Eric Copeland,
Yellowson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Babytalk,
Pantytec,
The Slackers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tears for Fears,
Sun City Girls,
Cluster,
Soft Machine,
Unwound,
The Knickerbockers,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Saints,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Mad Mike,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bluetip,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skaos,
Soulsonic Force,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.