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 Bulgaria and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flash Fearless to the dance 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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Wings,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Invisible,
Scratch Acid,
Leonard Cohen,
Eve St. Jones,
Absolute Body Control,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
David McCallum,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Glenn Branca,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cecil Taylor,
The Last Poets,
Audionom,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dirtbombs,
Minor Threat,
Adolescents,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
K-Klass,
Nils Olav,
Lakeside,
Kaleidoscope,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cowsills,
JFA,
LL Cool J,
The Selecter,
Swans,
Moebius,
Hasil Adkins,
Blake Baxter,
Harmonia,
Black Pus,
Warren Ellis,
Hashim,
Lower 48,
Kurtis Blow,
Bang On A Can,
John Lydon,
Graham Central Station,
UT,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Spandau Ballet,
Cameo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hardrive,
Funky Four + One,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Moleskins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Babytalk,
Eric Dolphy,
Susan Cadogan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sugar Minott,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.