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 Kenya and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Germs to the jazz 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Japan,
The Modern Lovers,
Robert Görl,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
Accadde A,
Drexciya,
Moby Grape,
The Skatalites,
Magazine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Moss Icon,
Hot Snakes,
June Days,
The Techniques,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Electric Prunes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
Sight & Sound,
the Normal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lakeside,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Halsall,
Minny Pops,
Fat Boys,
Barrington Levy,
The Black Dice,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aswad,
The Raincoats,
Radiohead,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Niagra,
kango's stein massive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Slits,
Newcleus,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
The Beau Brummels,
Little Man,
Bootsy Collins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fortunes,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.