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 Marshall Islands and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum 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 Michelle Simonal to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Wings,
the Human League,
The Skatalites,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Cale,
Stereo Dub,
Sister Nancy,
Sixth Finger,
E-Dancer,
The Motions,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sex Pistols,
New York Dolls,
Neu!,
Max Romeo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
Amazonics,
New Order,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Alton Ellis,
The Smiths,
Erykah Badu,
Graham Central Station,
X-101,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Howard Jones,
B.T. Express,
PIL,
Ossler,
Freddie Wadling,
The Monks,
Cameo,
the Swans,
Lungfish,
Pole,
Supertramp,
Talk Talk,
Big Daddy Kane,
David Bowie,
Kas Product,
Connie Case,
The Knickerbockers,
The Selecter,
Gang Gang Dance,
Panda Bear,
Jandek,
Robert Görl,
Icehouse,
Yazoo,
Arcadia,
the Bar-Kays,
Joe Smooth,
The Index,
Anakelly,
Ultimate Spinach,
Underground Resistance,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.