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 Nicaragua and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kas Product to the electroclash 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Young Marble Giants,
John Coltrane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ponytail,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Birthday Party,
Interpol,
Scan 7,
Quantec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rufus Thomas,
Stiv Bators,
The Fortunes,
The Doors,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cecil Taylor,
The Young Rascals,
Nico,
Unwound,
Leonard Cohen,
Arab on Radar,
Agent Orange,
The Gap Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronnie Foster,
Scratch Acid,
Godley & Creme,
Los Fastidios,
Flash Fearless,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erasure,
Amon Düül II,
Darondo,
Animal Collective,
The Cure,
The Leaves,
Outsiders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Blake Baxter,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kaleidoscope,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bill Wells,
Neil Young,
Public Enemy,
Malaria!,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Skatalites,
Johnny Clarke,
Radio Birdman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Khruangbin,
The Smiths,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.