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 Argentina and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 The Busters to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cal Tjader,
Theoretical Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
Andrew Hill,
Dual Sessions,
Livin' Joy,
Man Parrish,
Skriet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
MDC,
Archie Shepp,
Bauhaus,
The Divine Comedy,
Echospace,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Happenings,
Banda Bassotti,
Juan Atkins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Christie,
Loose Ends,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Visage,
Black Flag,
Chrome,
The Wake,
The Moody Blues,
Ludus,
Lucky Dragons,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Q65,
John Lydon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Easy Going,
The Young Rascals,
Jacob Miller,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra,
John Holt,
Brothers Johnson,
Roger Hodgson,
Nas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Barrington Levy,
Can,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.