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 Australia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Reuben Wilson,
Skarface,
Jerry's Kids,
Japan,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
Tom Boy,
Theoretical Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Desert Stars,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang of Four,
Ohio Players,
Zapp,
Subhumans,
Bobby Byrd,
David McCallum,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tears for Fears,
Cybotron,
Fear,
Motorama,
Cheater Slicks,
Altered Images,
Connie Case,
John Holt,
Lou Reed,
Pussy Galore,
Wings,
PIL,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Royal Trux,
Ash Ra Tempel,
New Order,
Whodini,
The Dave Clark Five,
Livin' Joy,
Rotary Connection,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dennis Brown,
Althea and Donna,
Tropical Tobacco,
Flipper,
Maleditus Sound,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Toasters,
Leonard Cohen,
Popol Vuh,
Moebius,
Organ,
Wire,
ABBA,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.