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 Bhutan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Curtis Mayfield to the funk 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Josef K,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Last Poets,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Schoolly D,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Infiniti,
Deadbeat,
Ken Boothe,
The Fall,
Tears for Fears,
Vladislav Delay,
Quando Quango,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Wyatt,
Brand Nubian,
Juan Atkins,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blues Magoos,
Skaos,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aaron Thompson,
Tim Buckley,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bronski Beat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yellowson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wings,
John Cale,
the Germs,
Ohio Players,
Warren Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Slick Rick,
Newcleus,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
The Neon Judgement,
Scratch Acid,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New Age Steppers,
A Certain Ratio,
Wasted Youth,
Essential Logic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Symarip,
Au Pairs,
Motorama,
Judy Mowatt,
The Birthday Party,
The Stooges,
Trumans Water,
The Black Dice,
Delta 5,
Monolake,
The Seeds,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.