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 East Timor and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Robert Görl,
Derrick May,
The Sonics,
Andrew Hill,
The Blues Magoos,
Massinfluence,
Freddie Wadling,
DJ Sneak,
Dennis Brown,
Guru Guru,
Model 500,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
48th St. Collective,
This Heat,
Jandek,
Big Daddy Kane,
Thompson Twins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fat Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
David Bowie,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gladiators,
Pere Ubu,
Second Layer,
Arthur Verocai,
DNA,
The Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dead Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Malaria!,
Tears for Fears,
China Crisis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Surgeon,
Graham Central Station,
Scrapy,
Public Enemy,
Pagans,
Dave Gahan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Davy DMX,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Womack,
Accadde A,
Wolf Eyes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
The Kinks,
Terry Callier,
The Five Americans,
Carl Craig,
Motorama,
Junior Murvin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Outsiders,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.