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 Malawi and from Taipei.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Derrick Morgan to the techno 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Goldenarms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Doors,
Charles Mingus,
Brick,
Gang Starr,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boz Scaggs,
Blancmange,
Gil Scott Heron,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Terry,
The Zeros,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crispy Ambulance,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacob Miller,
The Five Americans,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Human League,
Y Pants,
Dead Boys,
Lakeside,
Scion,
Joensuu 1685,
Q and Not U,
The Seeds,
Kenny Larkin,
Erasure,
Con Funk Shun,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soul II Soul,
Joe Finger,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Görl,
Robert Wyatt,
Tears for Fears,
the Sonics,
Stiv Bators,
Underground Resistance,
Nick Fraelich,
Jeff Mills,
The Fugs,
David Axelrod,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cameo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Martian,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Basic Channel,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.