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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 David Bowie 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 China Crisis to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Jeff Lynne,
Chrome,
The Sound,
X-101,
Black Pus,
Moebius,
Harpers Bizarre,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Man Parrish,
The Pretty Things,
Wasted Youth,
Donny Hathaway,
June of 44,
Sister Nancy,
Little Man,
The J.B.'s,
Anthony Braxton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
The Real Kids,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ponytail,
Urselle,
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crispy Ambulance,
Suicide,
Nirvana,
Carl Craig,
The Smiths,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Pussy Galore,
The Slits,
Thee Headcoats,
Simply Red,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Beau Brummels,
Bootsy Collins,
Symarip,
Brass Construction,
The Pop Group,
Anakelly,
ABC,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Lyres,
Icehouse,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Residents,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.