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 Bahamas and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Tom Verlaine 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 David Axelrod to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Alton Ellis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
K-Klass,
Janne Schatter,
David Bowie,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Trojans,
Crash Course in Science,
AZ,
Derrick Morgan,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Blackbyrds,
Erykah Badu,
Scion,
Monolake,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Talk Talk,
Marcia Griffiths,
Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
Kas Product,
Laurel Aitken,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sam Rivers,
Ohio Players,
Skriet,
Crooked Eye,
Public Enemy,
Charles Mingus,
Tim Buckley,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sixth Finger,
the Human League,
Scientists,
The Neon Judgement,
These Immortal Souls,
Los Fastidios,
The Gories,
Nick Fraelich,
Morten Harket,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
Barry Ungar,
Hot Snakes,
The Cramps,
Lou Christie,
Organ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wire,
Nils Olav,
Derrick May,
This Heat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fat Boys,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.