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 India and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Anthony Braxton to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
F. McDonald,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Pretty Things,
kango's stein massive,
Bootsy Collins,
Mandrill,
OOIOO,
Siglo XX,
Girls At Our Best!,
Massinfluence,
Pantytec,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Hot Snakes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Idris Muhammad,
DJ Style,
Moss Icon,
The Wake,
Traffic Nightmare,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Excepter,
Gang Starr,
Joe Finger,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
AZ,
Quadrant,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Desert Stars,
Minny Pops,
Rufus Thomas,
Moebius,
Swell Maps,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Green,
The Searchers,
Kas Product,
Jerry's Kids,
the Fania All-Stars,
Khruangbin,
DNA,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
New Age Steppers,
The Monochrome Set,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Count Five,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
Delta 5,
Moby Grape,
The Grass Roots,
Mark Hollis,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mojo Men,
Laurel Aitken,
Oneida,
Mission of Burma,
Kevin Saunderson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.