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 Hungary and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Index to the jazz 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
cv313,
Judy Mowatt,
Audionom,
John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
The Seeds,
Ultra Naté,
Gichy Dan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Magazine,
Morten Harket,
Archie Shepp,
Pagans,
The Cure,
Skarface,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tubeway Army,
Intrusion,
Goldenarms,
Guru Guru,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantytec,
Deepchord,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mars,
The Knickerbockers,
John Lydon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nico,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sonic Youth,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Smog,
Kas Product,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
CMW,
Absolute Body Control,
Thee Headcoats,
Delta 5,
Gastr Del Sol,
Shoche,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Slick Rick,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Blossom Toes,
Parry Music,
Idris Muhammad,
kango's stein massive,
Soul Sonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
DJ Style,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.