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 Japan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the punk 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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Leonard Cohen,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scientists,
The Zeros,
Joe Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Faust,
Gang of Four,
Kenny Larkin,
One Last Wish,
John Lydon,
Yaz,
Soul II Soul,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Malaria!,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Kinks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Von Mondo,
Joy Division,
Grey Daturas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Peter and Kerry,
The Associates,
The Leaves,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Music Machine,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Modern Lovers,
The Skatalites,
Organ,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quadrant,
Joe Finger,
Pussy Galore,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
Moebius,
Kurtis Blow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Searchers,
Royal Trux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bush Tetras,
the Sonics,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonic Youth,
Slick Rick,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
These Immortal Souls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amon Düül II,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultravox,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.