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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Schoolly D to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
a-ha,
Animal Collective,
Half Japanese,
David McCallum,
Johnny Clarke,
Brass Construction,
Boredoms,
Symarip,
Smog,
Desert Stars,
Oneida,
Little Man,
Roger Hodgson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stetsasonic,
The Associates,
The Evens,
Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
Arthur Verocai,
Grey Daturas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tears for Fears,
Hasil Adkins,
The Real Kids,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Electric Prunes,
Dual Sessions,
Television,
Fluxion,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bill Wells,
Avey Tare,
The Moody Blues,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Blackbyrds,
Ossler,
The Alarm Clocks,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultravox,
Skaos,
Eurythmics,
The Moleskins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Negative Approach,
The Invisible,
Rod Modell,
DNA,
Crash Course in Science,
Massinfluence,
The Blues Magoos,
The Kinks,
Davy DMX,
Joe Smooth,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
Simply Red,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.