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 Palau and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 Kerri Chandler to the techno 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Buzzcocks,
The Human League,
Tom Boy,
Liliput,
kango's stein massive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deepchord,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fuzztones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minnie Riperton,
PIL,
Faust,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bill Wells,
Big Daddy Kane,
James White and The Blacks,
Josef K,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
Sister Nancy,
Vainqueur,
Sun Ra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pet Shop Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Black Dice,
Aloha Tigers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Moby Grape,
This Heat,
Drexciya,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Young Marble Giants,
Girls At Our Best!,
MDC,
Tubeway Army,
Soul II Soul,
Bang On A Can,
New Age Steppers,
MC5,
Banda Bassotti,
Sällskapet,
Smog,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Johnny Clarke,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Massinfluence,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Style,
Yusef Lateef,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camouflage,
Sexual Harrassment,
Franke,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Wyatt,
Funkadelic,
The Modern Lovers,
Ten City,
Grey Daturas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.