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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kas Product to the disco 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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ludus,
Heaven 17,
Lakeside,
Lightning Bolt,
Blancmange,
Lower 48,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Freddie Wadling,
Soul II Soul,
Alice Coltrane,
Gichy Dan,
Danielle Patucci,
The Offenders,
Glenn Branca,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Absolute Body Control,
Vladislav Delay,
Dark Day,
Japan,
Junior Murvin,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rufus Thomas,
Q and Not U,
Arcadia,
the Slits,
Pagans,
Desert Stars,
Bill Near,
Model 500,
The Gap Band,
China Crisis,
L. Decosne,
Harmonia,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Trojans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Bananas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Los Fastidios,
Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
Zero Boys,
Sparks,
James White and The Blacks,
Ornette Coleman,
The American Breed,
Hot Snakes,
Symarip,
Matthew Bourne,
The Move,
Gabor Szabo,
The Electric Prunes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Be Bop Deluxe,
David Axelrod,
The Five Americans,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.