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 Indonesia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 New York Dolls to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Black Pus,
Ponytail,
Cal Tjader,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
Second Layer,
In Retrospect,
Lightning Bolt,
Bootsy Collins,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
Marc Almond,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Litter,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Count Five,
Arthur Verocai,
Fugazi,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eurythmics,
DNA,
John Holt,
Grauzone,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minny Pops,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hasil Adkins,
The Trojans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Byrd,
Althea and Donna,
Alton Ellis,
Motorama,
John Cale,
Joe Smooth,
The Red Krayola,
The Angels of Light,
The Cramps,
Pantytec,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ultravox,
Gichy Dan,
The Mummies,
Procol Harum,
Lower 48,
Bob Dylan,
Soulsonic Force,
Tomorrow,
Flipper,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
Dark Day,
Matthew Halsall,
Charles Mingus,
Eli Mardock,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.