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 New Zealand and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar 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 Second Layer to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Suburban Knight,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pylon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young,
Magma,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The United States of America,
Brand Nubian,
The Black Dice,
UT,
This Heat,
Funky Four + One,
Groovy Waters,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Pus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Slits,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quando Quango,
Gang Green,
Fatback Band,
Joe Smooth,
the Normal,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Neon Judgement,
The Index,
Ronan,
Idris Muhammad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
David Axelrod,
Urselle,
Aural Exciters,
Eric Copeland,
the Human League,
Gerry Rafferty,
Funkadelic,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Mummies,
Anakelly,
Dark Day,
Pagans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tom Boy,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Searchers,
Niagra,
John Foxx,
Q and Not U,
Second Layer,
Flamin' Groovies,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang of Four,
Royal Trux,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Sneak,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.