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 the UAE and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Scratch Acid,
Sonic Youth,
Agent Orange,
Rotary Connection,
Derrick Morgan,
Royal Trux,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Shoche,
The Leaves,
The Sonics,
L. Decosne,
Brothers Johnson,
Tubeway Army,
Flash Fearless,
China Crisis,
The Slits,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scrapy,
Anakelly,
Minnie Riperton,
A Certain Ratio,
Tommy Roe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sex Pistols,
The Zeros,
Blossom Toes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Toasters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grey Daturas,
The Selecter,
Jeff Mills,
Wally Richardson,
Alphaville,
The Buckinghams,
Sam Rivers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pussy Galore,
Popol Vuh,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter and Kerry,
Eli Mardock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sound,
PIL,
The Real Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
World's Most,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Toni Rubio,
The Moleskins,
Minutemen,
Drexciya,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.