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 Cape Verde and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bauhaus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
The Modern Lovers,
The Birthday Party,
Con Funk Shun,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Gories,
Aloha Tigers,
Tom Boy,
David McCallum,
Chris Corsano,
Japan,
The Trojans,
Chris & Cosey,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Von Mondo,
Janne Schatter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick Morgan,
The Move,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Beau Brummels,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eurythmics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wally Richardson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Heaven 17,
Make Up,
Thompson Twins,
Pole,
Procol Harum,
Spoonie Gee,
Soft Machine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joey Negro,
Godley & Creme,
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
Reuben Wilson,
Soft Cell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ohio Players,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Womack,
L. Decosne,
X-Ray Spex,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warren Ellis,
The Residents,
Angry Samoans,
Lower 48,
The Victims,
Drexciya,
the Association,
New Age Steppers,
Marmalade,
Tim Buckley,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.