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 Luxembourg and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Holger Czukay 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 Parry Music to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Pus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
The Cramps,
DJ Style,
Deepchord,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Second Layer,
Faust,
the Human League,
Panda Bear,
Kas Product,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cymande,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Das Ding,
B.T. Express,
cv313,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Juan Atkins,
The Fire Engines,
John Holt,
T.S.O.L.,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Five Americans,
Lakeside,
Sound Behaviour,
The Star Department,
Black Bananas,
Oneida,
Reagan Youth,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Birthday Party,
Pere Ubu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Susan Cadogan,
Minutemen,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Metal Thangz,
Maurizio,
Absolute Body Control,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Altered Images,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
Erykah Badu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Max Romeo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marcia Griffiths,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Loose Ends,
Jandek,
Lou Christie,
Deadbeat,
Circle Jerks,
The American Breed,
MDC,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.