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 Kuwait and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 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 Porter Ricks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Rakim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ronnie Foster,
Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
Todd Terry,
Rufus Thomas,
Prince Buster,
The Monochrome Set,
John Coltrane,
The Angels of Light,
Suicide,
the Human League,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Liliput,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tomorrow,
Anthony Braxton,
Fear,
Agent Orange,
Johnny Osbourne,
Qualms,
Peter and Kerry,
Yazoo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Iggy Pop,
Dennis Brown,
Negative Approach,
A Certain Ratio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
Underground Resistance,
The Blues Magoos,
Unwound,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
Magma,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Moon,
Bob Dylan,
Henry Cow,
Gregory Isaacs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Banda Bassotti,
John Holt,
Grauzone,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Skriet,
Duran Duran,
Ponytail,
Darondo,
Janne Schatter,
Das Ding,
Joe Finger,
Rosa Yemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Wolf Eyes,
cv313,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.