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 East Timor and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the disco 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Toni Rubio,
The Human League,
Clear Light,
Pharoah Sanders,
DJ Sneak,
The Buckinghams,
The Young Rascals,
The Gladiators,
Gong,
The Index,
Sight & Sound,
The Red Krayola,
Altered Images,
Wire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Skatalites,
Lebanon Hanover,
Youth Brigade,
Marine Girls,
Hashim,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rekid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Barracudas,
Rotary Connection,
Yellowson,
Dave Gahan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fela Kuti,
Can,
Visage,
The Sound,
The Moody Blues,
T.S.O.L.,
Heaven 17,
Guru Guru,
Unrelated Segments,
Goldenarms,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lungfish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Electric Prunes,
Mad Mike,
Au Pairs,
Khruangbin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Magazine,
Faust,
the Normal,
Von Mondo,
the Soft Cell,
Scientists,
Sparks,
Josef K,
Eric Copeland,
Shuggie Otis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Smog,
Flash Fearless,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Eurythmics,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.