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 Congo 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Vogues to the grunge 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gun Club,
Susan Cadogan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The J.B.'s,
Mars,
Iggy Pop,
Suicide,
The Trojans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Panda Bear,
Altered Images,
Bronski Beat,
Camberwell Now,
The Leaves,
E-Dancer,
Gang of Four,
The Cure,
The Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
Quando Quango,
Liliput,
Desert Stars,
the Human League,
Mary Jane Girls,
Excepter,
Patti Smith,
Pylon,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Sheep,
The Raincoats,
The Tremeloes,
Nils Olav,
Agitation Free,
Supertramp,
Harmonia,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Tomorrow,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fall,
Icehouse,
Zapp,
Kevin Saunderson,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare,
Stetsasonic,
Soulsonic Force,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pagans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
Eurythmics,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Remains,
Johnny Clarke,
The Associates,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.