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 Sudan and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Selecter to the grime 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Pus,
Khruangbin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tres Demented,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Parry Music,
Juan Atkins,
Flipper,
Eric Dolphy,
Roxy Music,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fad Gadget,
ABC,
Masters at Work,
Flash Fearless,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
One Last Wish,
The Knickerbockers,
Q and Not U,
The Doors,
Lyres,
Au Pairs,
Brothers Johnson,
kango's stein massive,
Ossler,
Spandau Ballet,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronan,
Barrington Levy,
Zero Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Chris Corsano,
Pierre Henry,
Darondo,
The Durutti Column,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David McCallum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Wake,
Rosa Yemen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Standells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The New Christs,
L. Decosne,
Deakin,
Minutemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Goldenarms,
Terrestrial Tones,
Crooked Eye,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.