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 Cyprus and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Slits to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun City Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Beau Brummels,
John Cale,
Susan Cadogan,
Arab on Radar,
Accadde A,
DNA,
Qualms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Porter Ricks,
Public Enemy,
Funky Four + One,
Black Flag,
Kerrie Biddell,
Michelle Simonal,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric Dolphy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grey Daturas,
Andrew Hill,
Darondo,
Con Funk Shun,
Hasil Adkins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eli Mardock,
The Names,
Ronan,
Mandrill,
Mars,
The Move,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lalann,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Schoolly D,
Jeff Lynne,
Animal Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
In Retrospect,
Neu!,
PIL,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Colin Newman,
Masters at Work,
Deepchord,
Ornette Coleman,
Isaac Hayes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang Starr,
New Order,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter and Kerry,
These Immortal Souls,
Matthew Halsall,
Al Stewart,
John Holt,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.