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 Mali and from Portland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 L. Decosne to the rock 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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Amon Düül II,
KRS-One,
Swans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Public Enemy,
Derrick May,
Popol Vuh,
One Last Wish,
Pere Ubu,
Mission of Burma,
Rekid,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mr. Review,
Grauzone,
Sight & Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
Tomorrow,
Joyce Sims,
CMW,
Todd Terry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blancmange,
Marmalade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Warren Ellis,
The Beau Brummels,
Marc Almond,
The Litter,
Shuggie Otis,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott Heron,
The New Christs,
Symarip,
A Certain Ratio,
E-Dancer,
Todd Rundgren,
The Index,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Hashim,
Au Pairs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
a-ha,
Ultravox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Reuben Wilson,
Basic Channel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.