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 Portugal and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Sun City Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Audionom,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Intrusion,
Funky Four + One,
The Five Americans,
Kurtis Blow,
Eric Copeland,
Sonny Sharrock,
Make Up,
Roxy Music,
Glambeats Corp.,
A Certain Ratio,
Pagans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Victims,
Visage,
Flash Fearless,
ABBA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tres Demented,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Q65,
Panda Bear,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultra Naté,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Dead C,
Crispy Ambulance,
Monolake,
Scratch Acid,
Little Man,
the Slits,
Loose Ends,
The Shadows of Knight,
Josef K,
The Doors,
Black Sheep,
Pere Ubu,
Lou Reed,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roy Ayers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalann,
Carl Craig,
L. Decosne,
The Music Machine,
Unwound,
Gang Starr,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.