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 Laos and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Fall to the grime 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
Television Personalities,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Girls At Our Best!,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Sneak,
Scientists,
New Order,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marvin Gaye,
Brothers Johnson,
48th St. Collective,
Clear Light,
Mark Hollis,
Radiohead,
Sun City Girls,
Anakelly,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Livin' Joy,
Television,
DJ Style,
Sällskapet,
Gang of Four,
Faraquet,
Dead Boys,
Ken Boothe,
New Age Steppers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wolf Eyes,
Blake Baxter,
Young Marble Giants,
Sandy B,
Zapp,
Marmalade,
Duran Duran,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Divine Comedy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Godley & Creme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Bowie,
London Community Gospel Choir,
B.T. Express,
Absolute Body Control,
Grauzone,
Kayak,
Sparks,
The Wake,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cure,
Quando Quango,
Gang Starr,
These Immortal Souls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.