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 Luxembourg and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Metal Thangz to the crunk 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
The Beau Brummels,
The Names,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Todd Terry,
Urselle,
Camouflage,
The Fugs,
Nico,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Funkadelic,
Gang of Four,
Tommy Roe,
Danielle Patucci,
Au Pairs,
The Motions,
Ronan,
Michelle Simonal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Davy DMX,
R.M.O.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pulsallama,
Piero Umiliani,
Adolescents,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sun Ra,
Pagans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eden Ahbez,
Swell Maps,
Rosa Yemen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nik Kershaw,
Henry Cow,
Avey Tare,
Panda Bear,
Alphaville,
MC5,
A Certain Ratio,
Soulsonic Force,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eddi Front,
Jandek,
In Retrospect,
Mandrill,
Zero Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sound Behaviour,
The Golliwogs,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
Monks,
Bill Near,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.