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 Gambia and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Davy DMX to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Warren Ellis,
Yusef Lateef,
Pulsallama,
The Standells,
The Sound,
Monolake,
Quando Quango,
JFA,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sparks,
Lindisfarne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Cale,
Wasted Youth,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Starr,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Judy Mowatt,
Howard Jones,
Niagra,
Faust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blake Baxter,
Symarip,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
John Foxx,
Camberwell Now,
Deadbeat,
Soft Cell,
kango's stein massive,
Sam Rivers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gong,
The Monks,
Joensuu 1685,
Severed Heads,
CMW,
Eve St. Jones,
Flash Fearless,
Rosa Yemen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moleskins,
Inner City,
The Electric Prunes,
Eli Mardock,
AZ,
Chrome,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Swans,
Pantytec,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.