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 Portugal and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Madrid.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pierre Henry to the punk 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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The New Christs,
The Five Americans,
Franke,
Quadrant,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pierre Henry,
Organ,
Junior Murvin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Man Parrish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ohio Players,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
Chrome,
The Moody Blues,
The Cure,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alton Ellis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bronski Beat,
Leonard Cohen,
The Trojans,
Japan,
The Knickerbockers,
X-102,
Ultra Naté,
Eddi Front,
MC5,
Lucky Dragons,
David McCallum,
John Foxx,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mo-Dettes,
Aaron Thompson,
the Association,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nils Olav,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Reed,
The Gories,
Anakelly,
The Wake,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun City Girls,
Sam Rivers,
Q65,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The American Breed,
Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Shoche,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mummies,
Rakim,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.