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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 DJ Style to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
Deakin,
Babytalk,
Von Mondo,
Grauzone,
Mad Mike,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Derrick Morgan,
The Standells,
AZ,
Y Pants,
Clear Light,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David Bowie,
Section 25,
Mantronix,
Camouflage,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Sherman,
Wasted Youth,
Funky Four + One,
The Tremeloes,
Quando Quango,
Depeche Mode,
Chris Corsano,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cowsills,
Charles Mingus,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Youth Brigade,
Juan Atkins,
Altered Images,
Ralphi Rosario,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crime,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Wyatt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Beau Brummels,
The Vogues,
Steve Hackett,
the Swans,
Minny Pops,
Freddie Wadling,
Reuben Wilson,
Subhumans,
The Human League,
Erasure,
The Offenders,
The Count Five,
Roxy Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
Absolute Body Control,
Sex Pistols,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.