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 St Lucia and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ohio Players to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Toni Rubio,
Newcleus,
The Invisible,
Dark Day,
The Martian,
Blossom Toes,
Jawbox,
Tres Demented,
the Normal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dave Gahan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
The Velvet Underground,
The Vogues,
Funky Four + One,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ponytail,
Erykah Badu,
Alton Ellis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Technova,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed,
Wire,
Lightning Bolt,
Chrome,
Sandy B,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Christie,
Television,
John Lydon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cure,
Scientists,
The Kinks,
Peter & Gordon,
Underground Resistance,
The Mummies,
Shuggie Otis,
The Techniques,
Stereo Dub,
Brand Nubian,
UT,
Fat Boys,
World's Most,
Joe Smooth,
Sight & Sound,
Agitation Free,
Bill Near,
Magma,
The Star Department,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soul Sonic Force,
Television Personalities,
The Blackbyrds,
Oneida,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.