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 Belarus and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Glambeats Corp.,
Radiopuhelimet,
Talk Talk,
Yusef Lateef,
Flash Fearless,
Godley & Creme,
Derrick May,
Scrapy,
Angry Samoans,
The Dave Clark Five,
MC5,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yazoo,
Derrick Morgan,
The New Christs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cybotron,
U.S. Maple,
Rotary Connection,
Mission of Burma,
K-Klass,
Clear Light,
Sonic Youth,
The Vogues,
Marmalade,
Stiv Bators,
Brick,
Peter & Gordon,
Ice-T,
Judy Mowatt,
Monolake,
Average White Band,
the Germs,
The Neon Judgement,
Harmonia,
The Move,
Fatback Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Fall,
Magma,
Main Source,
Moby Grape,
Moebius,
Interpol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Barracudas,
The Five Americans,
Amazonics,
Soul II Soul,
The Evens,
48th St. Collective,
Black Moon,
Throbbing Gristle,
The United States of America,
Alice Coltrane,
Au Pairs,
The Black Dice,
Pantaleimon,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.