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 Jamaica and from Jakarta.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Chris & Cosey to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Unrelated Segments,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ronan,
The Monochrome Set,
Delta 5,
The Associates,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
F. McDonald,
The Techniques,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Suburban Knight,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Flag,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Half Japanese,
Circle Jerks,
Hashim,
The Slits,
Spandau Ballet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barrington Levy,
The Victims,
John Holt,
Deepchord,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül,
Suicide,
Rotary Connection,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Hasil Adkins,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Scan 7,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
The Grass Roots,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Susan Cadogan,
June Days,
Trumans Water,
Fear,
Ludus,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Zeros,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Trojans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
A Certain Ratio,
The Durutti Column,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Litter,
X-101,
Dead Boys,
Agitation Free,
Delon & Dalcan,
Swell Maps,
Howard Jones,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.