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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sixth Finger to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Groovy Waters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Inner City,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Interpol,
Black Flag,
Thee Headcoats,
Sugar Minott,
Kurtis Blow,
Scrapy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Juan Atkins,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fortunes,
Nico,
Black Pus,
Slave,
Clear Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Germs,
Faraquet,
Slick Rick,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Buckinghams,
New Age Steppers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nik Kershaw,
Loose Ends,
Kaleidoscope,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sound Behaviour,
The Walker Brothers,
Alice Coltrane,
Minny Pops,
Organ,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Janne Schatter,
The Fugs,
Cameo,
Circle Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Zero Boys,
Flipper,
Sun City Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Flash Fearless,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Glenn Branca,
Whodini,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oneida,
The Dead C,
The Smiths,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Christie,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.