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 Kazakhstan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the dance 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispian St. Peters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Soft Cell,
Bang On A Can,
Kerrie Biddell,
Swans,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
R.M.O.,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Matthew Bourne,
Von Mondo,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Pulsallama,
Charles Mingus,
Technova,
Scott Walker,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Khruangbin,
Mad Mike,
The Blackbyrds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Essential Logic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Sheep,
The Beau Brummels,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Throbbing Gristle,
Delta 5,
The Golliwogs,
Flipper,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rites of Spring,
Boogie Down Productions,
Youth Brigade,
Rufus Thomas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minny Pops,
Junior Murvin,
Tomorrow,
Nik Kershaw,
The Move,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
La Düsseldorf,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy Collins,
New Order,
Circle Jerks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Warren Ellis,
Negative Approach,
KRS-One,
Spoonie Gee,
Sarah Menescal,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.