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 Bolivia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tokyo.
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 Mandrill to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
OOIOO,
Franke,
Television Personalities,
Sixth Finger,
The Smiths,
Index,
Kerri Chandler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yellowson,
Inner City,
Severed Heads,
Sight & Sound,
Crispy Ambulance,
Interpol,
The Associates,
The Mummies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
T.S.O.L.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Monks,
Sarah Menescal,
The Golliwogs,
Donny Hathaway,
Chris & Cosey,
Slick Rick,
Ten City,
Josef K,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Womack,
Dual Sessions,
Janne Schatter,
Joensuu 1685,
Chrome,
Pagans,
The J.B.'s,
The Cramps,
David Bowie,
Nik Kershaw,
Peter & Gordon,
Eden Ahbez,
Bob Dylan,
Rites of Spring,
Panda Bear,
Depeche Mode,
Kas Product,
The Beau Brummels,
The Young Rascals,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dorothy Ashby,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fortunes,
Gil Scott Heron,
MDC,
DJ Style,
Soft Cell,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.