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 United Kingdom and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chris Corsano to the techno 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-102,
Fugazi,
The Doors,
Bobby Womack,
Warren Ellis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Harmonia,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Little Man,
Inner City,
Scratch Acid,
Idris Muhammad,
Q65,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Wake,
Radio Birdman,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Symarip,
Sister Nancy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sällskapet,
Fad Gadget,
World's Most,
Royal Trux,
Robert Hood,
Scan 7,
Silicon Teens,
Hot Snakes,
Quando Quango,
Vladislav Delay,
MDC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Sherman,
The Beau Brummels,
Panda Bear,
The Seeds,
Flipper,
Kerri Chandler,
China Crisis,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Pretty Things,
Deepchord,
Goldenarms,
Rotary Connection,
CMW,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rekid,
Neil Young,
Make Up,
Brand Nubian,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barrington Levy,
Visage,
Agitation Free,
Derrick May,
Tears for Fears,
Tommy Roe,
Can,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.