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 Slovakia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 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 Bad Manners to the disco 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Newcleus,
MC5,
Los Fastidios,
Joe Smooth,
Janne Schatter,
Eden Ahbez,
Erasure,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Copeland,
Ohio Players,
The Moody Blues,
Matthew Halsall,
Circle Jerks,
Symarip,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
Inner City,
Negative Approach,
Bob Dylan,
Visage,
Big Daddy Kane,
Massinfluence,
Tom Boy,
Stiv Bators,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Public Enemy,
The Moleskins,
Au Pairs,
Mantronix,
EPMD,
Babytalk,
Depeche Mode,
John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang of Four,
Stereo Dub,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
F. McDonald,
The Barracudas,
The Techniques,
Jeff Mills,
Joy Division,
Von Mondo,
The Stooges,
Arab on Radar,
Blossom Toes,
10cc,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Intrusion,
Adolescents,
Black Bananas,
Essential Logic,
Faraquet,
Bang On A Can,
Kayak,
the Slits,
Neu!,
Quantec,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.