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 Antigua and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe 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 Tears for Fears to the funk 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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Aloha Tigers,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Das Ding,
Yellowson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Residents,
Clear Light,
the Association,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Martian,
The Sonics,
Severed Heads,
The Velvet Underground,
Silicon Teens,
Sparks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dave Clark Five,
Juan Atkins,
Ultravox,
Scion,
Funky Four + One,
Stereo Dub,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marmalade,
Inner City,
Newcleus,
Brass Construction,
Suicide,
Pantaleimon,
Iggy Pop,
FM Einheit,
The Names,
Eli Mardock,
Marc Almond,
The Kinks,
Bang On A Can,
Susan Cadogan,
Trumans Water,
The Star Department,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Pretty Things,
Supertramp,
DJ Sneak,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fela Kuti,
The Five Americans,
Moby Grape,
Jandek,
Unrelated Segments,
Laurel Aitken,
Bobby Womack,
Slick Rick,
The Happenings,
Jimmy McGriff,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.