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 Paraguay and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum 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 Trumans Water to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Make Up,
John Foxx,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Techniques,
The Gories,
Public Enemy,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
Joyce Sims,
Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
Sällskapet,
Andrew Hill,
Jacob Miller,
10cc,
X-102,
Nas,
Lalann,
Faust,
Maurizio,
The Doors,
Drexciya,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aaron Thompson,
Schoolly D,
The Evens,
Bobby Womack,
The Detroit Cobras,
Donny Hathaway,
Drive Like Jehu,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Martian,
Joe Finger,
Soft Cell,
The Busters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Infiniti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barry Ungar,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Saints,
Quantec,
Jawbox,
Reagan Youth,
James White and The Blacks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jandek,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
Icehouse,
Black Pus,
Marmalade,
Easy Going,
Model 500,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
Alphaville,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Boz Scaggs,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.