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 Finland and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Infiniti to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
Suburban Knight,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Reed,
The Last Poets,
Lower 48,
Black Pus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Smooth,
CMW,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
cv313,
Derrick May,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Motions,
Crime,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cheater Slicks,
Khruangbin,
Toni Rubio,
Mr. Review,
Pylon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
David Axelrod,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
Outsiders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minutemen,
Subhumans,
Eli Mardock,
the Bar-Kays,
Qualms,
Ronan,
Minny Pops,
Alice Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sandy B,
Kerrie Biddell,
Angry Samoans,
Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
LL Cool J,
Eric Copeland,
The Divine Comedy,
Ten City,
Hot Snakes,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.