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 Mexico and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Sex Pistols to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Iggy Pop,
Sugar Minott,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cheater Slicks,
X-101,
Josef K,
Barrington Levy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Evens,
Franke,
Joy Division,
John Holt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Davy DMX,
John Cale,
Neil Young,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
T.S.O.L.,
Jeff Mills,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Remains,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Flag,
R.M.O.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Saints,
Fugazi,
Technova,
Unwound,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dennis Brown,
Subhumans,
The Tremeloes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Electric Prunes,
Quantec,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Christie,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Matthew Bourne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
PIL,
Monolake,
Cecil Taylor,
Index,
a-ha,
Gong,
Robert Hood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crime,
Junior Murvin,
The Barracudas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
Altered Images,
John Lydon,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.