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 Turkmenistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rock 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T. Rex,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kaleidoscope,
Average White Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
La Düsseldorf,
Fela Kuti,
Siglo XX,
Erykah Badu,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Banda Bassotti,
Rapeman,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aaron Thompson,
Boredoms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alison Limerick,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Qualms,
Toni Rubio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unwound,
Black Pus,
Ossler,
Scan 7,
Skarface,
The Star Department,
10cc,
The Doobie Brothers,
The J.B.'s,
Joey Negro,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Symarip,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Niagra,
Arcadia,
The Buckinghams,
Jacques Brel,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sandy B,
The Zeros,
Tomorrow,
Index,
Sugar Minott,
Soul II Soul,
Graham Central Station,
Man Parrish,
The Index,
Bluetip,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kenny Larkin,
Guru Guru,
Funkadelic,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.