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 Eritrea and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Hasil Adkins to the disco 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Wally Richardson,
The J.B.'s,
FM Einheit,
Joey Negro,
Bad Manners,
The Kinks,
Cluster,
Deadbeat,
Hasil Adkins,
Metal Thangz,
Minny Pops,
The Velvet Underground,
Flipper,
Icehouse,
Kayak,
The Names,
Scratch Acid,
kango's stein massive,
Aswad,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Black Dice,
Todd Rundgren,
Guru Guru,
The Buckinghams,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television,
Cymande,
Sällskapet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Janne Schatter,
Sound Behaviour,
Absolute Body Control,
Nick Fraelich,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Misunderstood,
Jacob Miller,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Saints,
Man Parrish,
X-101,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
CMW,
Cal Tjader,
Piero Umiliani,
DNA,
Saccharine Trust,
Essential Logic,
Brothers Johnson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rod Modell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dark Day,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wire,
ABBA,
Amon Düül,
Harry Pussy,
EPMD,
The New Christs,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.