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 New Zealand and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Man Eating Sloth to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Max Romeo,
The Star Department,
Nik Kershaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Thompson Twins,
The Victims,
Groovy Waters,
The Zeros,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Parry Music,
Slick Rick,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
a-ha,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Invisible,
Brothers Johnson,
The Grass Roots,
Neu!,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eli Mardock,
Audionom,
Nas,
OOIOO,
The Martian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fad Gadget,
Dead Boys,
Alphaville,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pharoah Sanders,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Gang Green,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bob Dylan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nirvana,
A Certain Ratio,
Marshall Jefferson,
F. McDonald,
Grandmaster Flash,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Duran Duran,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
E-Dancer,
Spoonie Gee,
Pantaleimon,
Blake Baxter,
Amazonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swans,
Skriet,
The Cowsills,
Urselle,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.