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 Sudan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Iggy Pop to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
The Trojans,
Hardrive,
The Victims,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rufus Thomas,
Quadrant,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Erykah Badu,
The Pretty Things,
X-Ray Spex,
L. Decosne,
Negative Approach,
Guru Guru,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fela Kuti,
E-Dancer,
Alphaville,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Matthew Bourne,
Rotary Connection,
Tommy Roe,
Wasted Youth,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare,
Mo-Dettes,
Pantytec,
Don Cherry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bang On A Can,
Newcleus,
The Black Dice,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warren Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
Pere Ubu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
a-ha,
Funky Four + One,
Terry Callier,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Dead Boys,
CMW,
Ice-T,
Arab on Radar,
Crash Course in Science,
Model 500,
Arcadia,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Zeros,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.