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 Malaysia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Donald Fagen 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 Unrelated Segments to the grime 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sonics,
Infiniti,
CMW,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jandek,
John Foxx,
Fela Kuti,
Shuggie Otis,
Fad Gadget,
Colin Newman,
The Misunderstood,
Saccharine Trust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
David McCallum,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soul II Soul,
The Trojans,
These Immortal Souls,
Anakelly,
Bauhaus,
Symarip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nirvana,
Jacob Miller,
Mr. Review,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Amazonics,
Darondo,
X-102,
La Düsseldorf,
Tears for Fears,
Faust,
Can,
The Pop Group,
Drexciya,
Todd Terry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Boredoms,
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
Ohio Players,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stiv Bators,
Circle Jerks,
AZ,
Banda Bassotti,
Maurizio,
Basic Channel,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fire Engines,
The Fall,
Subhumans,
The Raincoats,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.