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 Portugal and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Grass Roots to the jazz 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Todd Terry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
PIL,
Skriet,
John Lydon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
Pulsallama,
The American Breed,
Ten City,
Country Teasers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Glenn Branca,
Main Source,
Theoretical Girls,
Section 25,
Darondo,
Flash Fearless,
The Grass Roots,
Simply Red,
The Names,
Roy Ayers,
The Velvet Underground,
Sonic Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marine Girls,
The Move,
Au Pairs,
Magma,
Reagan Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
Ossler,
The Misunderstood,
The Pop Group,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bill Wells,
Patti Smith,
The Barracudas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bush Tetras,
Yazoo,
Rites of Spring,
Nik Kershaw,
Rosa Yemen,
John Holt,
Gong,
Lindisfarne,
Unrelated Segments,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scion,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gang Gang Dance,
Warsaw,
Blancmange,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rakim,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.