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 Suriname and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 Leonard Cohen to the rock 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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Albert Ayler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Starr,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mary Jane Girls,
Iggy Pop,
Soft Machine,
New Age Steppers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Slits,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Glenn Branca,
Marshall Jefferson,
Drexciya,
Masters at Work,
Minutemen,
Derrick May,
Mantronix,
Dawn Penn,
Ronan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grandmaster Flash,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Amon Düül II,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Alarm Clocks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Techniques,
The Fall,
The Evens,
Colin Newman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Warren Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Eli Mardock,
Vainqueur,
Deakin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Holt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Flash Fearless,
Crash Course in Science,
Sandy B,
Supertramp,
Andrew Hill,
Tubeway Army,
Saccharine Trust,
The Misunderstood,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.