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 Macedonia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Arthur Verocai to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Nirvana,
Camberwell Now,
The Kinks,
Brothers Johnson,
Masters at Work,
Derrick May,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Talk Talk,
Bauhaus,
The Offenders,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
Outsiders,
Goldenarms,
Marine Girls,
Gang Starr,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Technova,
Yaz,
Panda Bear,
The Invisible,
kango's stein massive,
World's Most,
Nas,
Marvin Gaye,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
AZ,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lyres,
Reuben Wilson,
Lungfish,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Searchers,
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Smoke,
The J.B.'s,
Audionom,
Barry Ungar,
Junior Murvin,
Bill Wells,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quando Quango,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minny Pops,
Thee Headcoats,
Schoolly D,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kerri Chandler,
The Beau Brummels,
Gang Gang Dance,
Public Enemy,
The Blackbyrds,
Skarface,
Morten Harket,
Kerrie Biddell,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.