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 the UAE and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
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 spring reverb 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
One Last Wish,
Cybotron,
Sun Ra,
Minnie Riperton,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Young Marble Giants,
The Motions,
Con Funk Shun,
Rapeman,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed,
Byron Stingily,
Maleditus Sound,
Swans,
Duran Duran,
Siglo XX,
Bauhaus,
Barrington Levy,
Scan 7,
The Blues Magoos,
Talk Talk,
Nils Olav,
the Normal,
Freddie Wadling,
Jerry's Kids,
The Happenings,
The Remains,
Robert Hood,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Infiniti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The New Christs,
China Crisis,
Susan Cadogan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-Ray Spex,
Crash Course in Science,
Soulsonic Force,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Bourne,
Country Teasers,
Sparks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hardrive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fear,
Von Mondo,
Radiohead,
Glenn Branca,
Charles Mingus,
Camouflage,
Spandau Ballet,
The Human League,
Fluxion,
Hot Snakes,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.