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 Zambia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro 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 Chrome to the disco 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Kerrie Biddell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Thompson Twins,
Harmonia,
The Busters,
the Human League,
Carl Craig,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hardrive,
Ludus,
ABBA,
CMW,
Negative Approach,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Steve Hackett,
Lindisfarne,
The Happenings,
Todd Terry,
The Zeros,
Panda Bear,
Crime,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eli Mardock,
The Toasters,
The Index,
Dave Gahan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gun Club,
Accadde A,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scan 7,
Scion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fluxion,
Gang Green,
Bad Manners,
Al Stewart,
The Offenders,
New Order,
Basic Channel,
Deakin,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
JFA,
Loose Ends,
Boz Scaggs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Byrd,
Amazonics,
The Dead C,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Alton Ellis,
Rakim,
Mad Mike,
Visage,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.