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 Belgium and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the techno 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Anakelly,
Vainqueur,
Fat Boys,
Agitation Free,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Beau Brummels,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soulsonic Force,
Roy Ayers,
The Cure,
The Saints,
The Divine Comedy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kurtis Blow,
DJ Style,
Young Marble Giants,
Roxy Music,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wolf Eyes,
Lucky Dragons,
Colin Newman,
Prince Buster,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pulsallama,
Radio Birdman,
The Leaves,
Blake Baxter,
Niagra,
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Maurizio,
Kas Product,
Pere Ubu,
The Smoke,
Pantytec,
Blossom Toes,
Bauhaus,
The Associates,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tim Buckley,
Moebius,
Henry Cow,
Grey Daturas,
EPMD,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
London Community Gospel Choir,
a-ha,
Quadrant,
Harmonia,
Kaleidoscope,
Television,
Moss Icon,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Siglo XX,
Arab on Radar,
Public Enemy,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.