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 Greece and from New York.
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 Bremen and Hong Kong.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Ash Ra Tempel to the dance 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Brand Nubian,
Stereo Dub,
The Sound,
CMW,
James White and The Blacks,
Das Ding,
Sonic Youth,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultra Naté,
Unwound,
The Monochrome Set,
The Dirtbombs,
Lyres,
Depeche Mode,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grauzone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Swell Maps,
Todd Terry,
Eddi Front,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Erykah Badu,
Siglo XX,
Con Funk Shun,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter and Kerry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
This Heat,
Lower 48,
Althea and Donna,
Technova,
Marine Girls,
Camouflage,
ABC,
Hot Snakes,
Minor Threat,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
Wings,
Danielle Patucci,
Pantytec,
Skarface,
Excepter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Panda Bear,
KRS-One,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick May,
Glenn Branca,
Dark Day,
Mars,
Monolake,
Gong,
Bill Wells,
The Fall,
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.