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 Taiwan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Y Pants to the techno 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Simply Red,
Maurizio,
Excepter,
cv313,
Ossler,
Eric Copeland,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lee Hazlewood,
AZ,
The Buckinghams,
Matthew Bourne,
Suburban Knight,
Fugazi,
Ten City,
Brand Nubian,
Moebius,
The Golliwogs,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Young Marble Giants,
DJ Style,
JFA,
Rotary Connection,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pierre Henry,
The Offenders,
T. Rex,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Litter,
Iggy Pop,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Das Ding,
Monolake,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Halsall,
Con Funk Shun,
Blancmange,
The Monks,
The Blackbyrds,
the Germs,
Amon Düül II,
Anthony Braxton,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Darondo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.