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 Montenegro and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Susan Cadogan to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultravox,
The Blackbyrds,
The Detroit Cobras,
These Immortal Souls,
Ornette Coleman,
the Bar-Kays,
Fad Gadget,
Newcleus,
Pole,
Jeff Mills,
Goldenarms,
Lalo Schifrin,
PIL,
The Cramps,
Nick Fraelich,
June of 44,
Cymande,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
Kaleidoscope,
the Germs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bronski Beat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brass Construction,
Technova,
Idris Muhammad,
The Kinks,
Scratch Acid,
Leonard Cohen,
Rhythm & Sound,
Spoonie Gee,
Slave,
Rotary Connection,
Animal Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moby Grape,
The Electric Prunes,
Dual Sessions,
Cluster,
Pantaleimon,
Eurythmics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Association,
Robert Görl,
The Index,
Negative Approach,
Thompson Twins,
Monolake,
CMW,
Freddie Wadling,
The Happenings,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Victims,
Royal Trux,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
H. Thieme,
Althea and Donna,
K-Klass,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.