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 Gambia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar 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 the Soft Cell to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Patti Smith,
Ice-T,
Pantaleimon,
Parry Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Severed Heads,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monks,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiohead,
Sight & Sound,
The Slits,
Sun Ra,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fortunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Byrd,
Drexciya,
Magazine,
The Angels of Light,
World's Most,
kango's stein massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cure,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Groovy Waters,
Ornette Coleman,
Dark Day,
Maleditus Sound,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Max Romeo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wally Richardson,
The Residents,
Rotary Connection,
Q and Not U,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Schoolly D,
Whodini,
Fatback Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Saints,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Halsall,
Das Ding,
Blossom Toes,
PIL,
Rosa Yemen,
Rekid,
Japan,
Organ,
Brand Nubian,
Albert Ayler,
Josef K,
Pylon,
Suburban Knight,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.