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 Libya and from Accra.
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 Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Lalann to the funk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes 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 rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
U.S. Maple,
Chrome,
Parry Music,
Deepchord,
Gong,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Rod Modell,
Harmonia,
Marine Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Crash Course in Science,
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Searchers,
Lungfish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soulsonic Force,
Accadde A,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gichy Dan,
Sällskapet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mr. Review,
cv313,
Y Pants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Godley & Creme,
The Martian,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Foxx,
the Association,
Letta Mbulu,
Warren Ellis,
The Gories,
Peter and Kerry,
Nick Fraelich,
Qualms,
Siglo XX,
New Order,
Ronnie Foster,
Andrew Hill,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
CMW,
Patti Smith,
Japan,
F. McDonald,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ken Boothe,
Todd Terry,
The Divine Comedy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pulsallama,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.