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 Palau and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 marimba 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 Joey Negro to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Q65,
Minor Threat,
Soulsonic Force,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang Starr,
Scratch Acid,
MC5,
Maleditus Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
KRS-One,
Warren Ellis,
China Crisis,
Bobby Sherman,
Colin Newman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Trojans,
In Retrospect,
Suicide,
Laurel Aitken,
Bobby Hutcherson,
David Axelrod,
Vainqueur,
Derrick Morgan,
Urselle,
Pulsallama,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ohio Players,
the Sonics,
Flipper,
Sun City Girls,
Sister Nancy,
Thompson Twins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blancmange,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Piero Umiliani,
The Count Five,
Godley & Creme,
Fugazi,
Henry Cow,
Ice-T,
Public Enemy,
The Remains,
Mantronix,
The Skatalites,
Unrelated Segments,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Teasers,
Sällskapet,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-101,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
The Sonics,
Sexual Harrassment,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.