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 Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 Brass Construction to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bang On A Can,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Halsall,
Toni Rubio,
Pussy Galore,
Colin Newman,
Jawbox,
Rakim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rufus Thomas,
Mo-Dettes,
Tropical Tobacco,
10cc,
The Busters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Goldenarms,
Scion,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Womack,
Jerry's Kids,
Radio Birdman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
Barrington Levy,
OOIOO,
Adolescents,
Liliput,
Heaven 17,
Nirvana,
Josef K,
New York Dolls,
L. Decosne,
Fatback Band,
The Cowsills,
Audionom,
MC5,
The Golliwogs,
Make Up,
JFA,
Vainqueur,
Tears for Fears,
U.S. Maple,
Ken Boothe,
Byron Stingily,
Y Pants,
Morten Harket,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
The Birthday Party,
The Smoke,
Zapp,
Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Soulsonic Force,
X-102,
Brick,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.