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 Greece and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mars to the techno 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Bill Wells,
LL Cool J,
Lakeside,
Susan Cadogan,
Circle Jerks,
Iggy Pop,
Soft Cell,
Oneida,
Basic Channel,
John Coltrane,
The New Christs,
Little Man,
Joensuu 1685,
June Days,
The United States of America,
The American Breed,
Black Pus,
Flash Fearless,
Mantronix,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
Brothers Johnson,
Aaron Thompson,
Flamin' Groovies,
New Age Steppers,
Saccharine Trust,
Pylon,
Lalann,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Beau Brummels,
Pierre Henry,
Soft Machine,
Echospace,
Technova,
Crispian St. Peters,
Danielle Patucci,
Mission of Burma,
Groovy Waters,
Yusef Lateef,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
Make Up,
Boredoms,
Roxy Music,
Piero Umiliani,
Ten City,
John Cale,
MC5,
Sixth Finger,
Agent Orange,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
a-ha,
kango's stein massive,
Rosa Yemen,
The Kinks,
Sun City Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Schoolly D,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.