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 Germany and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Eric Copeland 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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Popol Vuh,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cameo,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
Warsaw,
Urselle,
Yusef Lateef,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
AZ,
The Names,
Black Flag,
Connie Case,
Eve St. Jones,
Supertramp,
Oblivians,
Josef K,
Ralphi Rosario,
a-ha,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
PIL,
Neil Young,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
U.S. Maple,
Robert Görl,
Whodini,
Moebius,
Underground Resistance,
the Sonics,
The Associates,
Yazoo,
The American Breed,
The Real Kids,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crispian St. Peters,
Reagan Youth,
OOIOO,
the Germs,
Yellowson,
Skriet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tom Boy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jandek,
Infiniti,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Motions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arthur Verocai,
Kool Moe Dee,
Circle Jerks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.