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 Congo and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb 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 Banda Bassotti to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Absolute Body Control,
The Divine Comedy,
New York Dolls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marc Almond,
Brick,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Selecter,
John Lydon,
Jacob Miller,
The Sonics,
Supertramp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
This Heat,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fugazi,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Letta Mbulu,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
The Last Poets,
Brass Construction,
Anthony Braxton,
Laurel Aitken,
Nick Fraelich,
Bang On A Can,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stereo Dub,
Easy Going,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bad Manners,
Mark Hollis,
Fad Gadget,
China Crisis,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Delta 5,
Theoretical Girls,
Eurythmics,
The Fuzztones,
cv313,
The Techniques,
The Human League,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
Schoolly D,
Drexciya,
New Age Steppers,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.