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 Switzerland and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Black Pus to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 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 Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare,
Pierre Henry,
John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
KRS-One,
The Smiths,
The Angels of Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scrapy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
T.S.O.L.,
Lucky Dragons,
the Sonics,
Shoche,
Dawn Penn,
Fluxion,
Basic Channel,
Thompson Twins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Real Kids,
The Litter,
Arcadia,
One Last Wish,
Scientists,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Visage,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wasted Youth,
Television,
The Birthday Party,
John Lydon,
Skaos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Dirtbombs,
Sex Pistols,
The Neon Judgement,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ten City,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Move,
The Last Poets,
The Divine Comedy,
Japan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barry Ungar,
Gang of Four,
the Slits,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.