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 Austria and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator 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 Marvin Gaye to the rap 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Ludus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Searchers,
The Zeros,
Motorama,
MC5,
Angry Samoans,
Soulsonic Force,
Nirvana,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
H. Thieme,
FM Einheit,
Tropical Tobacco,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kaleidoscope,
the Association,
Simply Red,
Terry Callier,
Marmalade,
Y Pants,
Kurtis Blow,
Archie Shepp,
Visage,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Sällskapet,
Flash Fearless,
Black Pus,
Quando Quango,
Mars,
Bootsy Collins,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Max Romeo,
David McCallum,
Harpers Bizarre,
Average White Band,
Oneida,
Absolute Body Control,
Infiniti,
Livin' Joy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Idris Muhammad,
Pole,
Soul II Soul,
Ken Boothe,
Brass Construction,
Sam Rivers,
The Gories,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.