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 South Sudan and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Fad Gadget to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Evens,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Lydon,
Scan 7,
Royal Trux,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Half Japanese,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sun City Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bad Manners,
Spoonie Gee,
The Stooges,
Crooked Eye,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Shoche,
Ossler,
Magma,
Alice Coltrane,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Birthday Party,
cv313,
Au Pairs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
Babytalk,
The Happenings,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lebanon Hanover,
June of 44,
Amazonics,
Josef K,
Symarip,
Jeff Lynne,
The Red Krayola,
Cluster,
AZ,
Barclay James Harvest,
LL Cool J,
D'Angelo,
Rites of Spring,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tom Boy,
Japan,
Soft Cell,
Los Fastidios,
Dennis Brown,
Gerry Rafferty,
Goldenarms,
Q and Not U,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.