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 Armenia and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet 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 cv313 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Outsiders,
The Gun Club,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Make Up,
Clear Light,
LL Cool J,
Mo-Dettes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fugazi,
Section 25,
Cheater Slicks,
Gichy Dan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Underground Resistance,
Q and Not U,
Kerri Chandler,
The Remains,
OOIOO,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swell Maps,
Sixth Finger,
The Detroit Cobras,
Piero Umiliani,
The J.B.'s,
Main Source,
Young Marble Giants,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Visage,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
Throbbing Gristle,
Idris Muhammad,
DJ Style,
AZ,
Trumans Water,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
In Retrospect,
New York Dolls,
The Grass Roots,
Funkadelic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Groovy Waters,
Soft Machine,
The Music Machine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Malaria!,
Siglo XX,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Surgeon,
Matthew Bourne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deakin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.