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 Madagascar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 The American Breed to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Monks,
Lightning Bolt,
Leonard Cohen,
Panda Bear,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Searchers,
the Germs,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Spandau Ballet,
China Crisis,
Slick Rick,
Don Cherry,
Blossom Toes,
Essential Logic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Toni Rubio,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shoche,
Brass Construction,
Dark Day,
Dorothy Ashby,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
World's Most,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Negative Approach,
Eden Ahbez,
Vladislav Delay,
The Human League,
Alton Ellis,
The New Christs,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Yaz,
Lungfish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kaleidoscope,
Malaria!,
June Days,
Judy Mowatt,
Section 25,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bill Near,
The Mummies,
Lebanon Hanover,
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fugs,
Matthew Bourne,
the Soft Cell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Little Man,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gladiators,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental 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.