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 Djibouti and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Theoretical Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sugar Minott,
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Derrick May,
Absolute Body Control,
Marine Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Second Layer,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Slackers,
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Q65,
JFA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eddi Front,
Janne Schatter,
The American Breed,
The Stooges,
Pantytec,
Jeru the Damaja,
Icehouse,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masters at Work,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lucky Dragons,
Oneida,
Infiniti,
Cal Tjader,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fatback Band,
Reuben Wilson,
The Neon Judgement,
Yazoo,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare,
Scrapy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
MC5,
The Star Department,
The New Christs,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marmalade,
Radiopuhelimet,
Arthur Verocai,
Joensuu 1685,
Eve St. Jones,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.