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 Austria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marine Girls to the rap 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Davy DMX,
Half Japanese,
Laurel Aitken,
David Axelrod,
The Real Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Germs,
Cymande,
Das Ding,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
Nico,
Bill Near,
Aswad,
Fluxion,
Jerry's Kids,
Bill Wells,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Gong,
Anakelly,
The Sonics,
Brothers Johnson,
Brick,
Von Mondo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Japan,
Pussy Galore,
Derrick Morgan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Suicide,
Unrelated Segments,
Ice-T,
Todd Terry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arthur Verocai,
Barbara Tucker,
Shuggie Otis,
Black Flag,
Kurtis Blow,
Howard Jones,
Desert Stars,
The Electric Prunes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joey Negro,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marmalade,
Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Black Moon,
Scratch Acid,
Royal Trux,
Erykah Badu,
Tim Buckley,
The Gories,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.