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 Vietnam and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Freddie Wadling to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Quando Quango,
Basic Channel,
Morten Harket,
Heaven 17,
John Coltrane,
Wings,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Swans,
Sugar Minott,
Tears for Fears,
Idris Muhammad,
Vainqueur,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dave Gahan,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
Toni Rubio,
Essential Logic,
Joe Finger,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Connie Case,
The Vogues,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q65,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Loose Ends,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra,
Los Fastidios,
Dark Day,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Suburban Knight,
Simply Red,
Joyce Sims,
Talk Talk,
Laurel Aitken,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scion,
8 Eyed Spy,
Al Stewart,
Big Daddy Kane,
Swans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wire,
Aural Exciters,
Erykah Badu,
Make Up,
Nico,
Joey Negro,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Goldenarms,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Warren Ellis,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.