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 Guinea and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mad Mike to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cal Tjader,
Absolute Body Control,
The Happenings,
Josef K,
Graham Central Station,
Laurel Aitken,
Barbara Tucker,
Brick,
David McCallum,
Steve Hackett,
Desert Stars,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Radiohead,
La Düsseldorf,
Magazine,
The Angels of Light,
Simply Red,
The Real Kids,
The Human League,
The Raincoats,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Radio Birdman,
The Grass Roots,
Andrew Hill,
Rufus Thomas,
Joyce Sims,
June of 44,
Ludus,
Unrelated Segments,
Man Parrish,
Danielle Patucci,
Nico,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fatback Band,
Loose Ends,
Byron Stingily,
Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Erykah Badu,
John Coltrane,
Fluxion,
Chris & Cosey,
Boredoms,
Slave,
John Lydon,
The Blackbyrds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Whodini,
Brothers Johnson,
Crime,
Scan 7,
The Names,
Warren Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.