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 Dominica and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Sound Behaviour to the electroclash 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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Suicide,
a-ha,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DJ Style,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unwound,
Mo-Dettes,
Bauhaus,
Eric Copeland,
Sound Behaviour,
Neu!,
Donald Byrd,
the Sonics,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Electric Prunes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Derrick Morgan,
Brick,
The Doors,
Peter & Gordon,
Michelle Simonal,
Khruangbin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cowsills,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Residents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mantronix,
Wally Richardson,
Tomorrow,
Bad Manners,
Gang Green,
John Foxx,
Skarface,
Maurizio,
Ultra Naté,
Ponytail,
Susan Cadogan,
MDC,
Groovy Waters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visage,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tim Buckley,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music,
Camouflage,
Warsaw,
Byron Stingily,
Moby Grape,
Lebanon Hanover,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.