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 Congo and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visage to the electroclash 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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Matthew Halsall,
The Monochrome Set,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suicide,
Blake Baxter,
Babytalk,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lower 48,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bluetip,
Siglo XX,
Ralphi Rosario,
Panda Bear,
the Normal,
Black Flag,
The Sound,
Black Bananas,
Technova,
John Holt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra,
U.S. Maple,
Derrick Morgan,
The Techniques,
The Velvet Underground,
Bronski Beat,
Suburban Knight,
Easy Going,
Howard Jones,
Au Pairs,
Smog,
Talk Talk,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Liliput,
LL Cool J,
Rufus Thomas,
Excepter,
Susan Cadogan,
Eric Dolphy,
X-Ray Spex,
Magazine,
Magma,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare,
Leonard Cohen,
Wasted Youth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Agent Orange,
Jawbox,
X-101,
Skriet,
Archie Shepp,
Von Mondo,
Kerri Chandler,
Deepchord,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.