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 Denmark and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gichy Dan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fire Engines,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Normal,
Alison Limerick,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Niagra,
Kerri Chandler,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rosa Yemen,
The Index,
Jacob Miller,
Con Funk Shun,
Minnie Riperton,
Jacques Brel,
Lower 48,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Christie,
Kas Product,
Reuben Wilson,
CMW,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Altered Images,
the Swans,
Hoover,
Bang On A Can,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ice-T,
Rekid,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter & Gordon,
Lyres,
Schoolly D,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
FM Einheit,
Prince Buster,
cv313,
Max Romeo,
Janne Schatter,
Idris Muhammad,
The Seeds,
Hardrive,
Cecil Taylor,
Yusef Lateef,
UT,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultravox,
Visage,
Scientists,
Audionom,
Fela Kuti,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.