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 Chile and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hasil Adkins to the electroclash 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Dual Sessions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Black Flag,
Marc Almond,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Schoolly D,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rekid,
Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Desert Stars,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Smiths,
E-Dancer,
The Move,
Harmonia,
John Holt,
Pantytec,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cal Tjader,
Eric B and Rakim,
Robert Görl,
Pagans,
John Cale,
The Sound,
Josef K,
Intrusion,
This Heat,
Vladislav Delay,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed,
New Order,
Talk Talk,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Young Rascals,
Gang Green,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonic Youth,
Roger Hodgson,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
David McCallum,
Camberwell Now,
The Techniques,
Arcadia,
Spoonie Gee,
The Music Machine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stetsasonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scott Walker,
The Monks,
Kurtis Blow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Erasure,
The Trojans,
Jandek,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.