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 Botswana and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin 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 Wings to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Procol Harum,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minutemen,
Funky Four + One,
Trumans Water,
Pantaleimon,
Ituana,
Marmalade,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mars,
Jerry's Kids,
June of 44,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Avey Tare,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cure,
The Monks,
Scion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Names,
The Litter,
Cybotron,
David McCallum,
Big Daddy Kane,
Josef K,
Bootsy Collins,
Newcleus,
China Crisis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
The Durutti Column,
Pere Ubu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marc Almond,
Boredoms,
Wolf Eyes,
John Holt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dead C,
The Invisible,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Divine Comedy,
Fad Gadget,
The Alarm Clocks,
Patti Smith,
Todd Rundgren,
R.M.O.,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eddi Front,
Monks,
The Modern Lovers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABC,
Nirvana,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.