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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Albert Ayler to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Oneida,
Metal Thangz,
The Searchers,
Los Fastidios,
the Soft Cell,
Tres Demented,
Niagra,
Marine Girls,
Patti Smith,
The Busters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wings,
Flash Fearless,
Organ,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heaven 17,
Dual Sessions,
Sällskapet,
The Cure,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sonics,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Masters at Work,
Reagan Youth,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mr. Review,
Lakeside,
Sugar Minott,
Swans,
Michelle Simonal,
Moebius,
Lalann,
The Angels of Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Moleskins,
Depeche Mode,
The Leaves,
Symarip,
Neu!,
Black Flag,
Liliput,
The Grass Roots,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stetsasonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Danielle Patucci,
Von Mondo,
Aloha Tigers,
Average White Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Drexciya,
The Selecter,
Public Enemy,
Fad Gadget,
The Associates,
Delta 5,
Arcadia,
Gang Gang Dance,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.