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 Sweden and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Young Marble Giants to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
The Busters,
Quantec,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Human League,
Trumans Water,
Aswad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Public Enemy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Black Dice,
Echospace,
Bluetip,
Bobby Sherman,
The Monks,
Sam Rivers,
Television Personalities,
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crime,
Nik Kershaw,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Easy Going,
Beasts of Bourbon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Kerri Chandler,
Wolf Eyes,
The Divine Comedy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Pretty Things,
Sun City Girls,
Dead Boys,
Infiniti,
Sun Ra,
Lungfish,
The Cure,
Neu!,
Rotary Connection,
James White and The Blacks,
Lakeside,
Intrusion,
Wasted Youth,
Livin' Joy,
Nirvana,
Carl Craig,
Sarah Menescal,
Mark Hollis,
World's Most,
Cybotron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Machine,
Glenn Branca,
Banda Bassotti,
Peter and Kerry,
Ken Boothe,
Dave Gahan,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Hood,
Sister Nancy,
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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.