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 Thailand and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Franke to the rock 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Prince Buster,
Sexual Harrassment,
Clear Light,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Avey Tare,
Outsiders,
Make Up,
Godley & Creme,
Aaron Thompson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ultra Naté,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang Starr,
FM Einheit,
Royal Trux,
Dave Gahan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Young Marble Giants,
Adolescents,
The New Christs,
The Blues Magoos,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The J.B.'s,
Joe Smooth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agitation Free,
Crispy Ambulance,
Monolake,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Sherman,
June Days,
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
Cymande,
Bauhaus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boogie Down Productions,
June of 44,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mission of Burma,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Moon,
The Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
Saccharine Trust,
Cybotron,
Mr. Review,
Au Pairs,
Minor Threat,
Aloha Tigers,
Minutemen,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Organ,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.