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 Philippines 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Unrelated Segments to the funk 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
In Retrospect,
Tres Demented,
Davy DMX,
Robert Görl,
Second Layer,
Ten City,
Glenn Branca,
Minutemen,
Malaria!,
Aloha Tigers,
John Cale,
The New Christs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
Faust,
Los Fastidios,
Moss Icon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lungfish,
The Buckinghams,
Eli Mardock,
Rekid,
Gang Starr,
Anthony Braxton,
Joensuu 1685,
The Slits,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Patti Smith,
Suburban Knight,
Danielle Patucci,
EPMD,
Dual Sessions,
The Monks,
The Modern Lovers,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pretty Things,
the Normal,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ohio Players,
Funky Four + One,
Freddie Wadling,
The Grass Roots,
The Pop Group,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Morten Harket,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skaos,
Ken Boothe,
Judy Mowatt,
Anakelly,
Jandek,
Young Marble Giants,
Crime,
Blancmange,
Susan Cadogan,
The Golliwogs,
The Barracudas,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.