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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Soulsonic Force to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Hoover,
The Blackbyrds,
The Vogues,
Kayak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Japan,
Marine Girls,
Procol Harum,
The Index,
Duran Duran,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Green,
The Golliwogs,
Ossler,
Sight & Sound,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Halsall,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David McCallum,
Ken Boothe,
James White and The Blacks,
The Star Department,
Erasure,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fat Boys,
FM Einheit,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kurtis Blow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dave Gahan,
Surgeon,
Eli Mardock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mantronix,
Quantec,
The Mojo Men,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Clarke,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
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Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Leaves,
the Germs,
The Doors,
OOIOO,
Thompson Twins,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lower 48,
L. Decosne,
Au Pairs,
Intrusion,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Real Kids,
Underground Resistance,
Lucky Dragons,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Anakelly,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.