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 Togo and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
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 808 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 Vainqueur to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
The Dead C,
The Residents,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Darondo,
The Cramps,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Oneida,
Sällskapet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
Tim Buckley,
The Walker Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rites of Spring,
CMW,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
10cc,
Half Japanese,
Letta Mbulu,
Bootsy Collins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agent Orange,
The New Christs,
Joensuu 1685,
Barrington Levy,
Qualms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Junior Murvin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Slick Rick,
Kas Product,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Jeru the Damaja,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Last Poets,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Make Up,
The Star Department,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eddi Front,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-Ray Spex,
Bauhaus,
Mad Mike,
Pierre Henry,
New Age Steppers,
Big Daddy Kane,
China Crisis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Josef K,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.