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 United States and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Order to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Cymande,
The Slackers,
Althea and Donna,
Yusef Lateef,
The Smiths,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang of Four,
Marmalade,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Victims,
Mission of Burma,
Essential Logic,
Pantaleimon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Knickerbockers,
The Dead C,
Cal Tjader,
Bush Tetras,
Man Eating Sloth,
Juan Atkins,
The Buckinghams,
Robert Görl,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sonics,
Roxy Music,
Idris Muhammad,
Deakin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visage,
Kevin Saunderson,
10cc,
Sarah Menescal,
The Searchers,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
T.S.O.L.,
Mr. Review,
Ronan,
Bobby Sherman,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
Camouflage,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
Letta Mbulu,
Swell Maps,
Neu!,
Sound Behaviour,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stetsasonic,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Grauzone,
Little Man,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.