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 Zimbabwe and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 World's Most to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Severed Heads,
DNA,
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product,
Unrelated Segments,
Ice-T,
Fluxion,
Matthew Halsall,
Terry Callier,
Whodini,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brass Construction,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neu!,
The Smoke,
Rotary Connection,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül II,
Camouflage,
Juan Atkins,
The Dead C,
R.M.O.,
The Doobie Brothers,
E-Dancer,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Arthur Verocai,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sound Behaviour,
Scientists,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Glenn Branca,
The New Christs,
Kurtis Blow,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Stooges,
The Standells,
Cal Tjader,
Brick,
Organ,
The Move,
Archie Shepp,
Johnny Clarke,
The Index,
T. Rex,
Rod Modell,
Hot Snakes,
Moss Icon,
John Holt,
Spoonie Gee,
Procol Harum,
The Skatalites,
Ralphi Rosario,
Trumans Water,
Rites of Spring,
Crispian St. Peters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dead Boys,
Scan 7,
The Residents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.