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 the UAE and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Camouflage to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
L. Decosne,
The Monks,
Circle Jerks,
Whodini,
Pantytec,
Jandek,
Erykah Badu,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Warren Ellis,
Reagan Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kurtis Blow,
Scan 7,
Nils Olav,
Lakeside,
The Red Krayola,
Skaos,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Maurizio,
Ohio Players,
Donald Byrd,
The Zeros,
Rhythm & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Unrelated Segments,
Harry Pussy,
Adolescents,
The Fugs,
The Fire Engines,
Massinfluence,
Harmonia,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
Rod Modell,
One Last Wish,
The Electric Prunes,
The Tremeloes,
Main Source,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Almond,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wolf Eyes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Chrome,
Pulsallama,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Litter,
Freddie Wadling,
Tomorrow,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Black Dice,
The Slackers,
EPMD,
Depeche Mode,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.