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 Malawi and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the electroclash 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Von Mondo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bluetip,
LL Cool J,
UT,
Josef K,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Index,
Eric Copeland,
The Tremeloes,
Tubeway Army,
Andrew Hill,
The Durutti Column,
Q65,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Excepter,
Au Pairs,
Kas Product,
Big Daddy Kane,
Moebius,
Clear Light,
cv313,
Patti Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Music Machine,
The Barracudas,
Black Sheep,
Derrick May,
Dead Boys,
The Vogues,
David Axelrod,
Liliput,
KRS-One,
John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ossler,
The Names,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Sonics,
H. Thieme,
Cybotron,
Minutemen,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minnie Riperton,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.