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 Israel and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Black Pus to the grunge 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Ornette Coleman,
The Modern Lovers,
Alton Ellis,
The Blackbyrds,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tommy Roe,
Brothers Johnson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
James White and The Blacks,
Inner City,
Liliput,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Dead C,
Loose Ends,
Shoche,
Goldenarms,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Flash Fearless,
The Alarm Clocks,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Halsall,
The Trojans,
Adolescents,
Nik Kershaw,
Metal Thangz,
Marmalade,
The Fugs,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Delta 5,
Minny Pops,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Arthur Verocai,
Pere Ubu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fluxion,
K-Klass,
Ronnie Foster,
The Gap Band,
David Axelrod,
Soul II Soul,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
A Certain Ratio,
The Offenders,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Style,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
EPMD,
Animal Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Charles Mingus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Easy Going,
Pantaleimon,
Thee Headcoats,
Babytalk,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fuzztones,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.