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 Burundi and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Offenders to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Quando Quango,
Harmonia,
Soul II Soul,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Faraquet,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Dolphy,
Niagra,
Brass Construction,
Essential Logic,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erasure,
Ken Boothe,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dave Gahan,
New Order,
The Standells,
Livin' Joy,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-Ray Spex,
Todd Rundgren,
Johnny Clarke,
Organ,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Average White Band,
Ohio Players,
T. Rex,
Rod Modell,
Jawbox,
The Misunderstood,
Easy Going,
The Offenders,
Ten City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Q and Not U,
Panda Bear,
Outsiders,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
Agent Orange,
Das Ding,
Lightning Bolt,
Juan Atkins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Spandau Ballet,
Mo-Dettes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Connie Case,
Severed Heads,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.