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 Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flash Fearless to the dance 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camberwell Now,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
Kaleidoscope,
Ken Boothe,
Amon Düül II,
The Gories,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marshall Jefferson,
Au Pairs,
Spandau Ballet,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
The Raincoats,
Sam Rivers,
Motorama,
David Bowie,
These Immortal Souls,
Letta Mbulu,
Organ,
The Busters,
New Age Steppers,
Liliput,
Bush Tetras,
Lyres,
Yazoo,
The Monochrome Set,
Minnie Riperton,
Youth Brigade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hardrive,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ponytail,
Eve St. Jones,
Excepter,
Joe Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deakin,
Gong,
Essential Logic,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gun Club,
The Dead C,
The Pretty Things,
Amazonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Masters at Work,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Interpol,
The Invisible,
Marine Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott Heron,
Icehouse,
Crispy Ambulance,
cv313,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.