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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Basic Channel to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sandy B,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arcadia,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lindisfarne,
Moby Grape,
Ice-T,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ponytail,
Loose Ends,
Blossom Toes,
Talk Talk,
The Durutti Column,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Litter,
Marmalade,
F. McDonald,
Rites of Spring,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Agent Orange,
Howard Jones,
Johnny Osbourne,
Prince Buster,
Soulsonic Force,
Underground Resistance,
Quando Quango,
Radiopuhelimet,
Simply Red,
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eve St. Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Yellowson,
Glenn Branca,
Pussy Galore,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Curtis Mayfield,
Goldenarms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Jeru the Damaja,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
48th St. Collective,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Easy Going,
Babytalk,
Minnie Riperton,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ludus,
the Human League,
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Sherman,
Circle Jerks,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.