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 Tonga and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fat Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Hashim,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Gang Starr,
Boogie Down Productions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rod Modell,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott Heron,
Shuggie Otis,
Sonic Youth,
Simply Red,
Jacob Miller,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pantytec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warsaw,
Hot Snakes,
X-102,
Amazonics,
Anakelly,
Qualms,
Yazoo,
The Divine Comedy,
The Names,
Pantaleimon,
Morten Harket,
Tom Boy,
Hoover,
Freddie Wadling,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kaleidoscope,
Ronnie Foster,
Heaven 17,
Pulsallama,
Pole,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Associates,
MC5,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Busters,
Isaac Hayes,
Oblivians,
Fad Gadget,
Alphaville,
Stiv Bators,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roger Hodgson,
Vainqueur,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nils Olav,
Spoonie Gee,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blake Baxter,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kas Product,
The Leaves,
Derrick May,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.