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 Bologna.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Moleskins to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Tres Demented,
Jerry's Kids,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deadbeat,
Lindisfarne,
Bauhaus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Pus,
The Electric Prunes,
Johnny Clarke,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eden Ahbez,
The Grass Roots,
The Fall,
Mars,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Warsaw,
The Real Kids,
Arab on Radar,
Vainqueur,
Josef K,
The Wake,
E-Dancer,
Eddi Front,
The Raincoats,
Black Sheep,
Qualms,
DJ Style,
Wolf Eyes,
8 Eyed Spy,
The United States of America,
Nico,
Scion,
Max Romeo,
The Vogues,
The Skatalites,
T.S.O.L.,
Joy Division,
The New Christs,
Model 500,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
The Slits,
Echospace,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
LL Cool J,
Livin' Joy,
DNA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.