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 Moldova and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Lungfish to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Sex Pistols,
MC5,
Throbbing Gristle,
Heaven 17,
Glenn Branca,
Scan 7,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bauhaus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Slits,
Yaz,
Davy DMX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wire,
Chrome,
The Last Poets,
Ken Boothe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Patti Smith,
Metal Thangz,
Barrington Levy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Robert Görl,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rekid,
Q and Not U,
Fugazi,
Agent Orange,
Kevin Saunderson,
A Certain Ratio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
F. McDonald,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wasted Youth,
Sight & Sound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiohead,
DNA,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Derrick May,
Cecil Taylor,
Eric Dolphy,
The Leaves,
Erykah Badu,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
Idris Muhammad,
Rod Modell,
ABBA,
Moss Icon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
PIL,
Janne Schatter,
Dawn Penn,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Country Teasers,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.