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 China and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar 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 Gladiators to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Franke,
Brothers Johnson,
China Crisis,
Stiv Bators,
The Offenders,
Mandrill,
Josef K,
Black Moon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Robert Hood,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Slackers,
Brass Construction,
Audionom,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hardrive,
The Names,
Barrington Levy,
Deakin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
The Music Machine,
Scion,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moleskins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Public Enemy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skarface,
Lower 48,
Marvin Gaye,
Talk Talk,
Visage,
Joe Smooth,
Ultravox,
Wolf Eyes,
The Seeds,
Janne Schatter,
Lakeside,
Chris Corsano,
Derrick May,
The Grass Roots,
Pagans,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pylon,
DJ Sneak,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Remains,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crime,
Chrome,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.