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 Cameroon and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the punk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Television Personalities,
Colin Newman,
LL Cool J,
The Gories,
Mr. Review,
Section 25,
Max Romeo,
Idris Muhammad,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Invisible,
The J.B.'s,
Byron Stingily,
The Fugs,
Interpol,
Subhumans,
Roxy Music,
Goldenarms,
Jeru the Damaja,
Desert Stars,
Simply Red,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fall,
Main Source,
Al Stewart,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Foxx,
Icehouse,
The Velvet Underground,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Martian,
Kool Moe Dee,
Suburban Knight,
F. McDonald,
Steve Hackett,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nirvana,
The Cramps,
ABBA,
Blake Baxter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funky Four + One,
Zapp,
Amazonics,
the Soft Cell,
Lindisfarne,
AZ,
Half Japanese,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skriet,
Ten City,
Adolescents,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.