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 Taiwan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum 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 Royal Trux to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jerry's Kids,
Adolescents,
The Buckinghams,
F. McDonald,
Wasted Youth,
David Bowie,
The Smoke,
Michelle Simonal,
Kenny Larkin,
Mission of Burma,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nico,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cybotron,
Mo-Dettes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
Swell Maps,
Yusef Lateef,
Hot Snakes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Subhumans,
Eden Ahbez,
Shoche,
Nirvana,
The Move,
Jacob Miller,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Simply Red,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fortunes,
Stereo Dub,
Vainqueur,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Sparks,
The Five Americans,
The Raincoats,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Deakin,
Kayak,
The Barracudas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Groovy Waters,
Prince Buster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Scrapy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Newcleus,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
PIL,
Ohio Players,
Scott Walker,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.