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 Cuba 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bologna.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Gichy Dan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Loose Ends,
Glenn Branca,
Girls At Our Best!,
Japan,
a-ha,
Tim Buckley,
Camberwell Now,
Althea and Donna,
The American Breed,
Von Mondo,
Underground Resistance,
D'Angelo,
The Litter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Peter and Kerry,
The Residents,
Joyce Sims,
The Mummies,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
Marmalade,
Roxette,
Jimmy McGriff,
Second Layer,
the Fania All-Stars,
Whodini,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lightning Bolt,
Dave Gahan,
Amazonics,
Scott Walker,
Anthony Braxton,
Chris & Cosey,
Tubeway Army,
Marine Girls,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shoche,
Altered Images,
R.M.O.,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quantec,
Jacob Miller,
Kool Moe Dee,
ABBA,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
The Last Poets,
Barry Ungar,
Nas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flamin' Groovies,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronnie Foster,
John Cale,
China Crisis,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.