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 Denmark and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the disco 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Graham Central Station,
Godley & Creme,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nas,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Funky Four + One,
Guru Guru,
Tres Demented,
Ken Boothe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Happenings,
Prince Buster,
The Mojo Men,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fire Engines,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lebanon Hanover,
The Leaves,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Section 25,
Joensuu 1685,
Sex Pistols,
Bush Tetras,
Infiniti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sonics,
MC5,
Pierre Henry,
Tubeway Army,
Eli Mardock,
ABBA,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eve St. Jones,
The Associates,
Slick Rick,
The Gap Band,
L. Decosne,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Sheep,
Derrick May,
Byron Stingily,
Traffic Nightmare,
Porter Ricks,
Oneida,
Minnie Riperton,
Excepter,
Glenn Branca,
The Alarm Clocks,
One Last Wish,
The Dead C,
The Pretty Things,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jerry's Kids,
Simply Red,
The Remains,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.