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 Luxembourg and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Massinfluence to the rock 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Second Layer,
Sound Behaviour,
Siglo XX,
Gastr Del Sol,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
The Fugs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Interpol,
John Lydon,
ABC,
Theoretical Girls,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gun Club,
Andrew Hill,
Nils Olav,
Junior Murvin,
Donny Hathaway,
Boz Scaggs,
Todd Terry,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moleskins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yazoo,
Henry Cow,
Fluxion,
Dorothy Ashby,
Section 25,
David McCallum,
Cymande,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cameo,
Nik Kershaw,
Babytalk,
Brick,
Matthew Bourne,
Byron Stingily,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
OOIOO,
Khruangbin,
Simply Red,
Jawbox,
Jimmy McGriff,
New York Dolls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Electric Prunes,
Underground Resistance,
Barbara Tucker,
X-102,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
AZ,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ronan,
K-Klass,
10cc,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.