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 Malaysia and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Wire to the rap 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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Michelle Simonal,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
Los Fastidios,
T.S.O.L.,
Sex Pistols,
Scion,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yaz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Robert Görl,
Marvin Gaye,
Electric Prunes,
Warsaw,
Intrusion,
Oneida,
Danielle Patucci,
The Vogues,
Von Mondo,
the Association,
Amazonics,
Erasure,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
Au Pairs,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tubeway Army,
F. McDonald,
La Düsseldorf,
The Modern Lovers,
L. Decosne,
UT,
X-101,
David Bowie,
The Cosmic Jokers,
A Certain Ratio,
Chris Corsano,
Franke,
The Selecter,
Susan Cadogan,
Maleditus Sound,
The Busters,
Fatback Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
Deakin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Audionom,
Idris Muhammad,
Pantaleimon,
The Walker Brothers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.