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 Congo and from Mexico City.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funky Four + One,
The J.B.'s,
Nico,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mantronix,
The Five Americans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gories,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dirtbombs,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crooked Eye,
Al Stewart,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rosa Yemen,
Jacques Brel,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marcia Griffiths,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wire,
Basic Channel,
The Slits,
Audionom,
Guru Guru,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Michelle Simonal,
Barbara Tucker,
John Holt,
Intrusion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Subhumans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Moss Icon,
Black Flag,
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wings,
the Sonics,
Unrelated Segments,
Parry Music,
Marmalade,
Unwound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Enemy,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Kinks,
Sandy B,
Kevin Saunderson,
Metal Thangz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crash Course in Science,
Fear,
Malaria!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.