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 Cape Verde and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Black Moon to the grunge 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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Shadows of Knight,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rhythm & Sound,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Prunes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABC,
Junior Murvin,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang of Four,
Gang Green,
The Fire Engines,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dirtbombs,
James White and The Blacks,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bootsy Collins,
Amon Düül II,
Monks,
cv313,
Arthur Verocai,
These Immortal Souls,
H. Thieme,
DJ Style,
Flipper,
Godley & Creme,
Hasil Adkins,
Barry Ungar,
Chris & Cosey,
The Golliwogs,
Newcleus,
Panda Bear,
Black Sheep,
The Wake,
Cluster,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
Subhumans,
Slave,
Lucky Dragons,
The Modern Lovers,
The Misunderstood,
Livin' Joy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mo-Dettes,
Au Pairs,
Khruangbin,
Q65,
Amazonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
Moss Icon,
This Heat,
Idris Muhammad,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.