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 Guinea and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Red Krayola 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
The Trojans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
10cc,
Vladislav Delay,
The Knickerbockers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ludus,
Marmalade,
Q and Not U,
Sight & Sound,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Carl Craig,
Mission of Burma,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Blackbyrds,
A Certain Ratio,
Deadbeat,
Quando Quango,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Tears for Fears,
The J.B.'s,
The Music Machine,
Pierre Henry,
Buzzcocks,
Delta 5,
New Order,
Arcadia,
Minny Pops,
Tomorrow,
the Swans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
L. Decosne,
Radiopuhelimet,
EPMD,
The Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mojo Men,
The Zeros,
Joe Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Moby Grape,
Severed Heads,
Tim Buckley,
Anakelly,
Thompson Twins,
Roxy Music,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash,
Junior Murvin,
Byron Stingily,
Cameo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
La Düsseldorf,
Newcleus,
Gastr Del Sol,
Young Marble Giants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.