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 Iran and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 Yazoo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
Royal Trux,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
The Fuzztones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pere Ubu,
The Blackbyrds,
U.S. Maple,
Agitation Free,
The Toasters,
The Kinks,
Smog,
Heaven 17,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Motions,
Sound Behaviour,
Los Fastidios,
Camberwell Now,
Monks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lucky Dragons,
ABC,
Alison Limerick,
Sam Rivers,
Nas,
Crooked Eye,
Underground Resistance,
the Sonics,
Barrington Levy,
Soul II Soul,
The Human League,
Roxy Music,
Wolf Eyes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Essential Logic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fear,
Hoover,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
The Pretty Things,
the Normal,
Easy Going,
Cymande,
Michelle Simonal,
Youth Brigade,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rufus Thomas,
X-102,
Livin' Joy,
Pussy Galore,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.