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 States and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dirtbombs,
Franke,
Half Japanese,
MDC,
Soul II Soul,
Simply Red,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
LL Cool J,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
Severed Heads,
The Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rakim,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Idris Muhammad,
Skriet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Smog,
The Doors,
Roxy Music,
Eurythmics,
Kurtis Blow,
The Angels of Light,
Nirvana,
Erasure,
X-101,
Bauhaus,
Index,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boz Scaggs,
Blake Baxter,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stiv Bators,
Gang Starr,
Byron Stingily,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Deepchord,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Index,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Halsall,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Sherman,
Lower 48,
Chrome,
the Slits,
The Techniques,
L. Decosne,
Negative Approach,
Visage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Standells,
Mandrill,
DNA,
The Kinks,
Albert Ayler,
Rod Modell,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.