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 Kenya and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Fear,
Moby Grape,
Television Personalities,
Barclay James Harvest,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Offenders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
Harmonia,
Cheater Slicks,
Toni Rubio,
Simply Red,
Jeff Lynne,
Susan Cadogan,
Eddi Front,
The Monochrome Set,
Skarface,
Ultimate Spinach,
Leonard Cohen,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Los Fastidios,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
Kurtis Blow,
Japan,
These Immortal Souls,
Tim Buckley,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jawbox,
Moebius,
Hasil Adkins,
New Age Steppers,
Fugazi,
Lalann,
Banda Bassotti,
Ronan,
Thompson Twins,
Symarip,
Lindisfarne,
Khruangbin,
Brand Nubian,
Robert Hood,
Magma,
Model 500,
Brothers Johnson,
Severed Heads,
Qualms,
Youth Brigade,
Drexciya,
Duran Duran,
Crash Course in Science,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ituana,
Rekid,
Carl Craig,
The Fugs,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.