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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Heaven 17 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
Fugazi,
The United States of America,
Inner City,
Flash Fearless,
The Doors,
CMW,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mandrill,
Saccharine Trust,
Pantytec,
Blancmange,
Toni Rubio,
Arab on Radar,
Vainqueur,
The Buckinghams,
Maurizio,
a-ha,
Faust,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Negative Approach,
Whodini,
Kerri Chandler,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Reagan Youth,
EPMD,
Agitation Free,
MDC,
Groovy Waters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Donald Byrd,
The Evens,
Ultimate Spinach,
Schoolly D,
Camouflage,
Intrusion,
The Gladiators,
Bill Near,
Bobby Sherman,
Bush Tetras,
The Smiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Underground Resistance,
Skarface,
Fad Gadget,
Y Pants,
Liliput,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
Echospace,
Organ,
New Order,
Procol Harum,
Unrelated Segments,
Metal Thangz,
Alphaville,
Qualms,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.