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 Turkey and from Shanghai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Scientists,
The Stooges,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Dolphy,
Tubeway Army,
Rapeman,
Intrusion,
Susan Cadogan,
Chrome,
Liliput,
John Coltrane,
Hot Snakes,
Erykah Badu,
The Walker Brothers,
E-Dancer,
Sarah Menescal,
The Last Poets,
Metal Thangz,
Swans,
The Mojo Men,
The Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Absolute Body Control,
Wings,
Big Daddy Kane,
Drexciya,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
Peter and Kerry,
Boredoms,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bobby Byrd,
Oneida,
H. Thieme,
The Alarm Clocks,
Slick Rick,
Jeru the Damaja,
Country Teasers,
Blossom Toes,
The Dave Clark Five,
T.S.O.L.,
Anakelly,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dave Gahan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Buzzcocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Birthday Party,
The Dirtbombs,
Yellowson,
Joensuu 1685,
Deakin,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.