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 Palau and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Stooges 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Ultravox,
Skarface,
Wasted Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Von Mondo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gladiators,
Kas Product,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker,
Soul II Soul,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Absolute Body Control,
Wally Richardson,
Animal Collective,
The Martian,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Smoke,
UT,
cv313,
The Cramps,
Guru Guru,
Janne Schatter,
The Fortunes,
Smog,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Stooges,
Joyce Sims,
K-Klass,
The Move,
Pet Shop Boys,
FM Einheit,
Joe Smooth,
H. Thieme,
Fatback Band,
Monolake,
Tears for Fears,
Morten Harket,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nico,
Darondo,
The Raincoats,
The Grass Roots,
Rosa Yemen,
Mars,
The Blackbyrds,
Talk Talk,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Intrusion,
Underground Resistance,
Mary Jane Girls,
Byron Stingily,
The Cure,
Bill Near,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.