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 Suriname and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zero Boys to the electroclash 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '80s.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
The Zeros,
Fluxion,
Sun City Girls,
Swell Maps,
The Music Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sparks,
Crooked Eye,
Wasted Youth,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gories,
The Martian,
Visage,
The Last Poets,
The Black Dice,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boz Scaggs,
Kerri Chandler,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
AZ,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Aaron Thompson,
Angry Samoans,
Tears for Fears,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Tremeloes,
Carl Craig,
Bizarre Inc.,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unwound,
Judy Mowatt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Negative Approach,
Michelle Simonal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Idris Muhammad,
Susan Cadogan,
kango's stein massive,
Howard Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Bar-Kays,
Monks,
Robert Wyatt,
Joe Smooth,
Average White Band,
Make Up,
Crime,
La Düsseldorf,
Erasure,
Al Stewart,
Jesper Dahlback,
Can,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cal Tjader,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.