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 Romania and from London.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Hoover to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alice Coltrane,
Fela Kuti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
X-Ray Spex,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boogie Down Productions,
Schoolly D,
Lightning Bolt,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ronan,
Essential Logic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Y Pants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Janne Schatter,
Minutemen,
R.M.O.,
DJ Sneak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Saccharine Trust,
D'Angelo,
Jeff Mills,
Eric B and Rakim,
E-Dancer,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Germs,
The Sonics,
Main Source,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed,
Visage,
The Red Krayola,
Flipper,
The Evens,
David McCallum,
Sugar Minott,
The Star Department,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tom Boy,
Harmonia,
Soul II Soul,
Funky Four + One,
Jesper Dahlback,
Livin' Joy,
Shoche,
Delon & Dalcan,
Little Man,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Audionom,
James White and The Blacks,
Pussy Galore,
Alison Limerick,
China Crisis,
Rod Modell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Byron Stingily,
Soft Machine,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.