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 Nauru and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Seoul and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Duran Duran to the techno 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Organ,
Erasure,
Los Fastidios,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Faust,
Unrelated Segments,
Tomorrow,
Cluster,
Technova,
Darondo,
Duran Duran,
Guru Guru,
The Busters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Young Marble Giants,
These Immortal Souls,
Jawbox,
Aaron Thompson,
Severed Heads,
Popol Vuh,
The Beau Brummels,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dave Gahan,
Zero Boys,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Siglo XX,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fortunes,
Ultravox,
the Association,
Chrome,
Grauzone,
Lakeside,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
Harmonia,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lightning Bolt,
Rites of Spring,
The Real Kids,
The Happenings,
Hardrive,
Shuggie Otis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sound Behaviour,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Terrestrial Tones,
D'Angelo,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.