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 Kosovo and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer 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 Wings to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Camouflage,
Surgeon,
Chris Corsano,
Minor Threat,
Swans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Organ,
Ornette Coleman,
Tommy Roe,
Alton Ellis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
Althea and Donna,
Minnie Riperton,
The Blackbyrds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Absolute Body Control,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pulsallama,
Cameo,
Wasted Youth,
Electric Prunes,
Fugazi,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Siglo XX,
The Fugs,
Warren Ellis,
Lyres,
The Golliwogs,
The Residents,
Monks,
Inner City,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kerri Chandler,
Sound Behaviour,
Darondo,
Pylon,
Glenn Branca,
James White and The Blacks,
the Germs,
Urselle,
Patti Smith,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
X-102,
Mary Jane Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pole,
Guru Guru,
Lakeside,
Bauhaus,
Don Cherry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Massinfluence,
Scrapy,
Ludus,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.