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 Fiji and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Thompson Twins to the funk 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Glenn Branca,
Interpol,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gong,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-101,
Derrick May,
Bad Manners,
Suicide,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deepchord,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Vladislav Delay,
The Remains,
The Move,
The Vogues,
Joe Smooth,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare,
Depeche Mode,
The Moleskins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Country Teasers,
Half Japanese,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Music Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
The Neon Judgement,
Drexciya,
Absolute Body Control,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fugazi,
Wings,
Icehouse,
Second Layer,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
One Last Wish,
Reagan Youth,
Roxy Music,
Porter Ricks,
the Human League,
The Invisible,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Skaos,
Qualms,
The Fall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ralphi Rosario,
Monolake,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.