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 Turkmenistan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Circle Jerks to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Swans,
L. Decosne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vladislav Delay,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deakin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The J.B.'s,
OOIOO,
Lakeside,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joy Division,
Masters at Work,
Johnny Osbourne,
Audionom,
Technova,
The Durutti Column,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
Zapp,
Glambeats Corp.,
DJ Style,
Youth Brigade,
Flash Fearless,
Aloha Tigers,
Darondo,
Goldenarms,
The Toasters,
The Raincoats,
Pulsallama,
Popol Vuh,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
Theoretical Girls,
Von Mondo,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
R.M.O.,
Ice-T,
Eric Copeland,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Moby Grape,
The Gap Band,
Cymande,
Cheater Slicks,
Skarface,
Lindisfarne,
Ohio Players,
Yusef Lateef,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Model 500,
The Human League,
EPMD,
Excepter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.