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 Spokane.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Derrick May to the rock 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brand Nubian,
Steve Hackett,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pantytec,
Susan Cadogan,
Alison Limerick,
Slave,
The Durutti Column,
Scott Walker,
Al Stewart,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Michelle Simonal,
Jandek,
The Gun Club,
Ornette Coleman,
Heaven 17,
Silicon Teens,
Black Flag,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
Hardrive,
Terry Callier,
Jacob Miller,
Deakin,
Eden Ahbez,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Names,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
KRS-One,
UT,
Cybotron,
Mark Hollis,
Oneida,
Joe Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Josef K,
Moby Grape,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed,
Hasil Adkins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Mo-Dettes,
Marine Girls,
Ossler,
Deadbeat,
Bootsy Collins,
Parry Music,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.