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 Bolivia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantytec,
X-102,
The Litter,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Crash Course in Science,
Dark Day,
8 Eyed Spy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gories,
AZ,
The Real Kids,
L. Decosne,
Dead Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Josef K,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pretty Things,
Letta Mbulu,
The Searchers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiohead,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bootsy Collins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joy Division,
Maurizio,
Swans,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronan,
The Gap Band,
E-Dancer,
The Mummies,
Harpers Bizarre,
Crime,
Matthew Halsall,
The Techniques,
The Birthday Party,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cramps,
Glenn Branca,
Sparks,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Foxx,
Minnie Riperton,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bad Manners,
Fela Kuti,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Grass Roots,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fall,
Scott Walker,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.