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 China and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer 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 Saccharine Trust to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Sugar Minott,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
D'Angelo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skriet,
The Dirtbombs,
Lakeside,
Pylon,
The Barracudas,
Blake Baxter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Boredoms,
the Germs,
The Monochrome Set,
Trumans Water,
The Invisible,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Grass Roots,
KRS-One,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fela Kuti,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Associates,
Con Funk Shun,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Knickerbockers,
ABC,
JFA,
Todd Terry,
The Velvet Underground,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Victims,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
MC5,
Ossler,
Soul Sonic Force,
Man Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ronan,
Dorothy Ashby,
China Crisis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erasure,
The Happenings,
Johnny Clarke,
Bad Manners,
Thee Headcoats,
The Wake,
Lou Christie,
Loose Ends,
Mary Jane Girls,
Make Up,
Tres Demented,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Sällskapet,
Reuben Wilson,
New York Dolls,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.