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 Germany and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Erasure to the punk 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Letta Mbulu,
Trumans Water,
Lightning Bolt,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
Todd Terry,
Marmalade,
Matthew Bourne,
The Tremeloes,
Sugar Minott,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Index,
Babytalk,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erasure,
Drexciya,
a-ha,
This Heat,
Kerri Chandler,
Depeche Mode,
Magma,
David McCallum,
Aaron Thompson,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Offenders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
The Associates,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pole,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pussy Galore,
Avey Tare,
Stiv Bators,
Sarah Menescal,
Funky Four + One,
R.M.O.,
The Angels of Light,
Nirvana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Suicide,
The Sisters of Mercy,
D'Angelo,
Can,
Talk Talk,
Dennis Brown,
Black Sheep,
Isaac Hayes,
Maurizio,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispian St. Peters,
Procol Harum,
Rotary Connection,
Arab on Radar,
Amon Düül II,
The Selecter,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.