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 Kosovo and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Steve Hackett to the grime 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Stereo Dub,
The Fall,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Germs,
The Dirtbombs,
Depeche Mode,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lungfish,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brass Construction,
Drive Like Jehu,
Con Funk Shun,
Suburban Knight,
MC5,
Visage,
Eli Mardock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eric Dolphy,
Dawn Penn,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roy Ayers,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
Eurythmics,
The Cowsills,
10cc,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Tremeloes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Bar-Kays,
cv313,
Funky Four + One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moebius,
Nas,
Tim Buckley,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Foxx,
Scrapy,
the Swans,
Masters at Work,
Alphaville,
U.S. Maple,
D'Angelo,
China Crisis,
Cymande,
Godley & Creme,
New York Dolls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Slits,
Josef K,
Wolf Eyes,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Human League,
Von Mondo,
Oneida,
Icehouse,
Altered Images,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.