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 Ghana and from Columbus.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 the Slits to the grunge 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare,
Circle Jerks,
The Walker Brothers,
Bush Tetras,
Barbara Tucker,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Todd Rundgren,
Alton Ellis,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dirtbombs,
Shoche,
Jacques Brel,
The Human League,
Depeche Mode,
Al Stewart,
The Monochrome Set,
Fat Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Ten City,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Wyatt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maleditus Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
the Swans,
D'Angelo,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Angels of Light,
Nas,
The Buckinghams,
Wings,
Funky Four + One,
Jeff Mills,
Spandau Ballet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oblivians,
Eli Mardock,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tim Buckley,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Index,
Unwound,
DNA,
Von Mondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Youth Brigade,
AZ,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.