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 Belgium and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Symarip to the electroclash 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Bush Tetras,
Graham Central Station,
Moss Icon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Massinfluence,
Anakelly,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultravox,
DJ Sneak,
Section 25,
In Retrospect,
The Offenders,
Robert Hood,
The Cramps,
Minnie Riperton,
Mars,
Fluxion,
FM Einheit,
the Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
MC5,
The Fortunes,
The Red Krayola,
Goldenarms,
Joey Negro,
Piero Umiliani,
Hasil Adkins,
Archie Shepp,
Flash Fearless,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wings,
The Index,
The Vogues,
Skaos,
The Kinks,
Television Personalities,
Pylon,
Fela Kuti,
Y Pants,
Amazonics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Freddie Wadling,
Model 500,
The J.B.'s,
The Pretty Things,
Erasure,
The Associates,
Surgeon,
Godley & Creme,
10cc,
Bobby Sherman,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gap Band,
Nik Kershaw,
OOIOO,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.