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 Portugal and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 48th St. Collective to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Roger Hodgson,
Section 25,
Robert Wyatt,
Intrusion,
Spandau Ballet,
Suburban Knight,
Letta Mbulu,
The Move,
Television Personalities,
Peter & Gordon,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nik Kershaw,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brand Nubian,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crispy Ambulance,
The J.B.'s,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anakelly,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pantytec,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Morten Harket,
Mark Hollis,
X-102,
the Germs,
Chris & Cosey,
JFA,
Barrington Levy,
Metal Thangz,
Skaos,
Avey Tare,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wally Richardson,
Goldenarms,
Faust,
kango's stein massive,
Pussy Galore,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Coltrane,
Prince Buster,
Drive Like Jehu,
CMW,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Buzzcocks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jeff Mills,
the Bar-Kays,
Deadbeat,
Sun City Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deakin,
Outsiders,
Darondo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dave Gahan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.