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 Botswana and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Maleditus Sound,
The Kinks,
Ronan,
Pantaleimon,
The Mummies,
Pagans,
Cluster,
Derrick Morgan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Skarface,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Los Fastidios,
Blake Baxter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultra Naté,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Almond,
The Gun Club,
Junior Murvin,
Kurtis Blow,
the Normal,
Jacob Miller,
the Human League,
Harmonia,
Saccharine Trust,
Bluetip,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soul Sonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Golliwogs,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Stetsasonic,
The Alarm Clocks,
T.S.O.L.,
the Slits,
Flipper,
Qualms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bauhaus,
Bill Wells,
Erasure,
Little Man,
Throbbing Gristle,
Davy DMX,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dave Gahan,
Howard Jones,
June Days,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nils Olav,
Pylon,
Massinfluence,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cameo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.