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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Donald Fagen 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
The Five Americans,
Cheater Slicks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MC5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Raincoats,
Banda Bassotti,
AZ,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Animal Collective,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
R.M.O.,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wire,
The Doors,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
Jesper Dahlback,
Heaven 17,
Josef K,
Altered Images,
cv313,
Flamin' Groovies,
Spoonie Gee,
Bronski Beat,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Motions,
The Golliwogs,
Suburban Knight,
This Heat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oblivians,
Arcadia,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
B.T. Express,
The Neon Judgement,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Parry Music,
Tom Boy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Terry Callier,
Black Sheep,
Y Pants,
PIL,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wolf Eyes,
Black Moon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Simply Red,
Cal Tjader,
Graham Central Station,
Barclay James Harvest,
Inner City,
The Cowsills,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
Quantec,
Lalann,
Goldenarms,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.