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 Brunei and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 John Holt to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Henry Cow,
the Association,
AZ,
Donald Byrd,
Swans,
Piero Umiliani,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ponytail,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Vogues,
Depeche Mode,
Blake Baxter,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
The Barracudas,
One Last Wish,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jawbox,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Silicon Teens,
Stockholm Monsters,
Josef K,
Aloha Tigers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Minny Pops,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unrelated Segments,
Nik Kershaw,
Sugar Minott,
The Doors,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soul II Soul,
Spandau Ballet,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
June Days,
Althea and Donna,
Roxette,
Radio Birdman,
Rod Modell,
Tears for Fears,
Cameo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kool Moe Dee,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Flag,
Max Romeo,
Kas Product,
Bootsy Collins,
Anakelly,
Al Stewart,
The Red Krayola,
Johnny Osbourne,
New Age Steppers,
Suicide,
Cybotron,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.