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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Grauzone to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
The Move,
Glenn Branca,
Pole,
Anakelly,
The Associates,
Carl Craig,
Laurel Aitken,
Easy Going,
Supertramp,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacques Brel,
UT,
Circle Jerks,
the Bar-Kays,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cybotron,
Barry Ungar,
Absolute Body Control,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Music Machine,
Joe Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
The Buckinghams,
Jeru the Damaja,
Echospace,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Joey Negro,
Brick,
Johnny Osbourne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slits,
The Moody Blues,
Black Bananas,
Crash Course in Science,
Isaac Hayes,
Bauhaus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Birthday Party,
The Electric Prunes,
Jawbox,
Gichy Dan,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soul II Soul,
Sister Nancy,
Harmonia,
Marine Girls,
The New Christs,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.