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 Tuvalu and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Dead Boys to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Bobby Womack,
Oblivians,
Lakeside,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare,
Kerri Chandler,
Joe Finger,
U.S. Maple,
The Gap Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
Sister Nancy,
Anthony Braxton,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Durutti Column,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rotary Connection,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bad Manners,
Aural Exciters,
Depeche Mode,
The Wake,
The Move,
Wolf Eyes,
The Martian,
Mad Mike,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rites of Spring,
Joyce Sims,
Steve Hackett,
Blancmange,
The Kinks,
Half Japanese,
Graham Central Station,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Evens,
The Seeds,
Nico,
Pet Shop Boys,
Chris Corsano,
Sex Pistols,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Reuben Wilson,
Jandek,
The Cowsills,
Joy Division,
Frankie Knuckles,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radio Birdman,
Ice-T,
Japan,
Yellowson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.