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 Belize and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Gastr Del Sol to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Massinfluence,
X-Ray Spex,
Flash Fearless,
X-102,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tim Buckley,
Brand Nubian,
Nick Fraelich,
Kas Product,
Hoover,
Alphaville,
Silicon Teens,
Freddie Wadling,
U.S. Maple,
Rotary Connection,
Tomorrow,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Human League,
Television Personalities,
Barclay James Harvest,
Youth Brigade,
Robert Wyatt,
The Trojans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Theoretical Girls,
Saccharine Trust,
Neu!,
T. Rex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare,
Howard Jones,
Barry Ungar,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hasil Adkins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Cure,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Moon,
The Seeds,
The Invisible,
Index,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dead C,
Sandy B,
Magma,
Intrusion,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Erykah Badu,
Loose Ends,
D'Angelo,
Masters at Work,
Erasure,
Fear,
CMW,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Prince Buster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.