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 Benin and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 The Toasters to the jazz 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Boogie Down Productions,
10cc,
Von Mondo,
Suburban Knight,
Davy DMX,
The Electric Prunes,
John Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vladislav Delay,
Country Teasers,
Magma,
U.S. Maple,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Copeland,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DJ Sneak,
Bobby Sherman,
Organ,
The Litter,
Chris & Cosey,
The Mojo Men,
Newcleus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Charles Mingus,
Kas Product,
Kayak,
Ponytail,
Unwound,
The Smiths,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Juan Atkins,
The Cure,
Amon Düül II,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25,
Nirvana,
Toni Rubio,
Roxy Music,
The Music Machine,
Yazoo,
Yellowson,
The Golliwogs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Buckinghams,
Amazonics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Franke,
Massinfluence,
Khruangbin,
Con Funk Shun,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fall,
Faraquet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Alphaville,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.