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 Korea North and from Stockholm.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Fall to the crunk 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
The Buckinghams,
Donald Byrd,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maleditus Sound,
Scan 7,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fad Gadget,
Wire,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Intrusion,
Chris & Cosey,
Sister Nancy,
Ronan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nik Kershaw,
Make Up,
Essential Logic,
Blancmange,
Grey Daturas,
the Normal,
Maurizio,
Depeche Mode,
The Music Machine,
Don Cherry,
Kool Moe Dee,
KRS-One,
The Mojo Men,
The Evens,
The Offenders,
Boz Scaggs,
The Residents,
Funky Four + One,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Womack,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
The Moody Blues,
X-Ray Spex,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
OOIOO,
Buzzcocks,
Liliput,
Sandy B,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David McCallum,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Masters at Work,
T.S.O.L.,
Mission of Burma,
Circle Jerks,
Oblivians,
Gil Scott Heron,
Accadde A,
Joe Finger,
Amon Düül,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dual Sessions,
Motorama,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.