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 Samoa and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Country Teasers to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Robert Görl,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erasure,
John Foxx,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tubeway Army,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ken Boothe,
Pussy Galore,
Parry Music,
Television Personalities,
Deadbeat,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tom Boy,
Ultravox,
The Cowsills,
X-101,
Y Pants,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
Tommy Roe,
Negative Approach,
One Last Wish,
Fatback Band,
Scan 7,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Prince Buster,
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gastr Del Sol,
Agent Orange,
the Normal,
Nik Kershaw,
Zero Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Amazonics,
cv313,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pagans,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Human League,
Rekid,
Pantaleimon,
Bush Tetras,
Schoolly D,
Country Teasers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mantronix,
Symarip,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.