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 Argentina and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Nirvana,
Adolescents,
Alphaville,
Slick Rick,
The Alarm Clocks,
Idris Muhammad,
The Associates,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Steve Hackett,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arab on Radar,
LL Cool J,
Lakeside,
Joe Smooth,
The United States of America,
The Fire Engines,
Delta 5,
U.S. Maple,
Prince Buster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Talk Talk,
Harpers Bizarre,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Victims,
OOIOO,
This Heat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hasil Adkins,
Tom Boy,
Fear,
the Slits,
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wasted Youth,
The Birthday Party,
James White and The Blacks,
Kenny Larkin,
ABC,
The Busters,
Buzzcocks,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Osbourne,
Isaac Hayes,
Harmonia,
Monolake,
The Toasters,
Radiohead,
Bauhaus,
The Monks,
The Fall,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cowsills,
KRS-One,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
Janne Schatter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rites of Spring,
The J.B.'s,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.