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 Panama and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Colin Newman to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Glenn Branca,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pylon,
Stereo Dub,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Desert Stars,
Danielle Patucci,
Fela Kuti,
Suicide,
Mr. Review,
La Düsseldorf,
The Pop Group,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Searchers,
The Raincoats,
Rites of Spring,
Pere Ubu,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Move,
Amazonics,
Oblivians,
Pet Shop Boys,
Agitation Free,
The Tremeloes,
Ossler,
The Stooges,
Cal Tjader,
Clear Light,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eli Mardock,
Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Faust,
The Toasters,
Eve St. Jones,
Unwound,
Blake Baxter,
Lakeside,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Sheep,
Ken Boothe,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Malaria!,
Slick Rick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Shoche,
The Cure,
Ultra Naté,
Joy Division,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vainqueur,
Cluster,
New Order,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.