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 Lebanon and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jawbox to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
June Days,
Dave Gahan,
The Trojans,
Don Cherry,
Kenny Larkin,
Brand Nubian,
The Fire Engines,
JFA,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kas Product,
Index,
The Cure,
Gang Green,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Knickerbockers,
Sight & Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Gories,
The United States of America,
Country Teasers,
Japan,
New Order,
Carl Craig,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Sneak,
Crime,
the Slits,
Little Man,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Standells,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ultra Naté,
Deepchord,
The Human League,
Tomorrow,
MC5,
Marine Girls,
Pulsallama,
Kurtis Blow,
Technova,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Golliwogs,
Sonny Sharrock,
New York Dolls,
Archie Shepp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mars,
Tres Demented,
Kayak,
Can,
Make Up,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Residents,
Alison Limerick,
The Barracudas,
Amon Düül II,
Second Layer,
Easy Going,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.