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 France and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
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 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 Kaleidoscope 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Lydon,
Half Japanese,
Joensuu 1685,
Moss Icon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barrington Levy,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bootsy Collins,
Can,
Little Man,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Smooth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jawbox,
Quando Quango,
The Cure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Suburban Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
Amon Düül,
Fluxion,
Boredoms,
Outsiders,
Max Romeo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Circle Jerks,
Roxette,
The Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
R.M.O.,
Bill Near,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rites of Spring,
Mandrill,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cecil Taylor,
Dawn Penn,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Johnny Clarke,
The Durutti Column,
Pere Ubu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Real Kids,
Buzzcocks,
Scion,
Ohio Players,
Jacob Miller,
the Soft Cell,
X-Ray Spex,
Jimmy McGriff,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.