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 Romania and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dirtbombs to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Pulsallama,
The Sonics,
Ohio Players,
The Durutti Column,
Neil Young,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drexciya,
Lee Hazlewood,
Young Marble Giants,
Zero Boys,
Sandy B,
Anthony Braxton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camouflage,
Boredoms,
Camberwell Now,
Sound Behaviour,
Danielle Patucci,
Rakim,
The Zeros,
Scion,
Ludus,
Half Japanese,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Idris Muhammad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cramps,
Joey Negro,
Crime,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Judy Mowatt,
Bootsy Collins,
Josef K,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Althea and Donna,
Scientists,
Mark Hollis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bob Dylan,
Amazonics,
Arcadia,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radio Birdman,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Grass Roots,
Patti Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
Ken Boothe,
Yazoo,
Graham Central Station,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang of Four,
Goldenarms,
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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.