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 Hungary and from Delhi.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Deadbeat to the jazz 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Dead Boys,
the Sonics,
Laurel Aitken,
Procol Harum,
New Age Steppers,
Brand Nubian,
Dennis Brown,
Trumans Water,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ludus,
Moebius,
Hot Snakes,
Maleditus Sound,
Minor Threat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The American Breed,
Public Image Ltd.,
Unwound,
Zero Boys,
Faust,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Darondo,
Pole,
the Germs,
K-Klass,
The Gap Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
OOIOO,
Gong,
UT,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thompson Twins,
Los Fastidios,
Mission of Burma,
The Move,
Bronski Beat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Second Layer,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon,
The Divine Comedy,
Blossom Toes,
The Fire Engines,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moss Icon,
Talk Talk,
Mark Hollis,
The Red Krayola,
Popol Vuh,
Joe Smooth,
MC5,
Kenny Larkin,
Glenn Branca,
Slick Rick,
ABC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Derrick Morgan,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.