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 Marshall Islands and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 DJ Style 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
The Leaves,
The Techniques,
Boredoms,
Procol Harum,
The Birthday Party,
kango's stein massive,
The Gun Club,
Warsaw,
Schoolly D,
Eden Ahbez,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Wells,
Trumans Water,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Talk Talk,
Urselle,
Mr. Review,
The Monochrome Set,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joey Negro,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Faust,
One Last Wish,
The Fugs,
Lindisfarne,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Absolute Body Control,
Fugazi,
Janne Schatter,
Peter and Kerry,
Technova,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Derrick Morgan,
Deadbeat,
The Golliwogs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Subhumans,
Yazoo,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marine Girls,
Make Up,
Skarface,
Average White Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Excepter,
Pagans,
The Searchers,
Kerri Chandler,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cure,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.