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 Barbados and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Unwound to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Talk Talk,
Crime,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marine Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Altered Images,
Terry Callier,
Don Cherry,
EPMD,
Smog,
the Swans,
Eric Dolphy,
The Sound,
Brand Nubian,
D'Angelo,
Gong,
Davy DMX,
Zapp,
Newcleus,
Connie Case,
Gang of Four,
Idris Muhammad,
Yaz,
Negative Approach,
The Dead C,
Albert Ayler,
Bush Tetras,
Infiniti,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
Joe Smooth,
Joe Finger,
the Soft Cell,
Procol Harum,
Vainqueur,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Cybotron,
Deakin,
Fela Kuti,
Symarip,
The Wake,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dawn Penn,
Popol Vuh,
Bauhaus,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lindisfarne,
cv313,
Jimmy McGriff,
Loose Ends,
Sex Pistols,
Ronan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.