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 Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 DJ Style to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Pantytec,
The Standells,
Urselle,
John Holt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Michelle Simonal,
Tropical Tobacco,
The United States of America,
F. McDonald,
Basic Channel,
Neu!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül,
Charles Mingus,
Rites of Spring,
Delta 5,
Massinfluence,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Colin Newman,
48th St. Collective,
ABC,
Nik Kershaw,
Arab on Radar,
Buzzcocks,
Au Pairs,
Henry Cow,
Arcadia,
Scientists,
Index,
U.S. Maple,
Cal Tjader,
Khruangbin,
kango's stein massive,
James White and The Blacks,
The Stooges,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Glenn Branca,
the Bar-Kays,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Last Poets,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dark Day,
Ossler,
Todd Terry,
Neil Young,
Scan 7,
Funky Four + One,
Wasted Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bad Manners,
Rufus Thomas,
Andrew Hill,
DNA,
Swell Maps,
Joyce Sims,
Roxette,
John Coltrane,
The Buckinghams,
Dual Sessions,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.