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 Laos and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 World's Most to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Brick,
Lakeside,
Agent Orange,
Johnny Osbourne,
Derrick May,
Dual Sessions,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
Lungfish,
Popol Vuh,
Pylon,
Suicide,
Jacob Miller,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amazonics,
Fear,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mantronix,
The Detroit Cobras,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Erykah Badu,
Absolute Body Control,
Patti Smith,
Roxette,
The Tremeloes,
The Star Department,
Isaac Hayes,
Stereo Dub,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moebius,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ludus,
Audionom,
Scan 7,
MDC,
Amon Düül,
Andrew Hill,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kenny Larkin,
Newcleus,
Sun City Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Fatback Band,
Harmonia,
Fluxion,
Grey Daturas,
A Certain Ratio,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eli Mardock,
Spoonie Gee,
Ice-T,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Outsiders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.