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 Japan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Moebius,
Au Pairs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mo-Dettes,
Faust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eddi Front,
The Fortunes,
Unrelated Segments,
Absolute Body Control,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
The Trojans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Porter Ricks,
KRS-One,
Guru Guru,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
Eric B and Rakim,
K-Klass,
Camouflage,
Pussy Galore,
Matthew Halsall,
Pere Ubu,
Underground Resistance,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flipper,
The Slackers,
Index,
Arab on Radar,
Johnny Clarke,
Nas,
Gichy Dan,
Sex Pistols,
Agitation Free,
Sister Nancy,
X-101,
Drive Like Jehu,
Zapp,
Bobby Womack,
Mars,
Mark Hollis,
Thompson Twins,
Sarah Menescal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Supertramp,
Peter & Gordon,
Accadde A,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joe Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Technova,
Interpol,
The Monks,
Joey Negro,
Main Source,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.