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 South Africa and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Junior Murvin to the techno 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Jawbox,
Ossler,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Kayak,
Agitation Free,
Malaria!,
X-101,
The Flesh Eaters,
Junior Murvin,
Todd Rundgren,
Chrome,
Section 25,
Dorothy Ashby,
Danielle Patucci,
Deakin,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Standells,
Rites of Spring,
Jacques Brel,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Sister Nancy,
Morten Harket,
Ohio Players,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Q and Not U,
MC5,
Massinfluence,
Altered Images,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Oblivians,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Bowie,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Sheep,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Idris Muhammad,
Radio Birdman,
Franke,
The Leaves,
Eddi Front,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Shadows of Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Josef K,
Tubeway Army,
Dennis Brown,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Tremeloes,
The American Breed,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun City Girls,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.