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 Malta and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 New York Dolls to the dance 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Babytalk,
Minutemen,
Scan 7,
Johnny Osbourne,
Todd Rundgren,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ituana,
Excepter,
Quantec,
Rekid,
Pantytec,
Lightning Bolt,
Gabor Szabo,
Desert Stars,
Jacob Miller,
Stockholm Monsters,
Funkadelic,
Alison Limerick,
The Wake,
Jawbox,
The Evens,
Public Enemy,
Todd Terry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Unwound,
Mandrill,
Bad Manners,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wings,
Black Bananas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Piero Umiliani,
The Toasters,
Grauzone,
Freddie Wadling,
The Vogues,
Stetsasonic,
D'Angelo,
Bobby Sherman,
Sound Behaviour,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
Japan,
Eurythmics,
The Tremeloes,
New Order,
Barry Ungar,
Godley & Creme,
Terry Callier,
Howard Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
Simply Red,
Sister Nancy,
Rotary Connection,
Pussy Galore,
Stereo Dub,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.