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 Ukraine and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dirtbombs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Easy Going,
Bobby Byrd,
DNA,
Donny Hathaway,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hashim,
Thompson Twins,
The Dead C,
Nik Kershaw,
Negative Approach,
Black Bananas,
Sonny Sharrock,
Depeche Mode,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Animal Collective,
Dave Gahan,
Technova,
Simply Red,
Bush Tetras,
Kenny Larkin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Little Man,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bluetip,
Bill Wells,
FM Einheit,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The United States of America,
Au Pairs,
Carl Craig,
K-Klass,
Tears for Fears,
Public Image Ltd.,
These Immortal Souls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
The Pretty Things,
Jerry's Kids,
Joyce Sims,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rakim,
In Retrospect,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cybotron,
Steve Hackett,
The Moody Blues,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sun City Girls,
Brick,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Juan Atkins,
Deakin,
Gang of Four,
Basic Channel,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.