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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Gories to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Zero Boys,
Newcleus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bronski Beat,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Last Poets,
Altered Images,
Oblivians,
The Trojans,
PIL,
Derrick May,
Eli Mardock,
June of 44,
Flamin' Groovies,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barbara Tucker,
Infiniti,
Livin' Joy,
Jerry's Kids,
DNA,
Mad Mike,
Fluxion,
the Normal,
Sällskapet,
The Zeros,
Electric Prunes,
The Blackbyrds,
Joy Division,
Archie Shepp,
Black Sheep,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter & Gordon,
The Divine Comedy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Echospace,
The Pretty Things,
Von Mondo,
Buzzcocks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ice-T,
Vladislav Delay,
Fad Gadget,
Barrington Levy,
X-102,
ABC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Max Romeo,
The Searchers,
Funky Four + One,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jandek,
The Slits,
The Moleskins,
Schoolly D,
Television,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.