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 Mali and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the jazz 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Quando Quango,
Audionom,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marc Almond,
Funky Four + One,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Moby Grape,
The Count Five,
The Zeros,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
KRS-One,
Byron Stingily,
Public Enemy,
Circle Jerks,
Unwound,
Yusef Lateef,
Maurizio,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Selecter,
Second Layer,
Kurtis Blow,
The Blues Magoos,
Subhumans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
Hoover,
Ohio Players,
UT,
Derrick Morgan,
E-Dancer,
The Happenings,
Mars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang of Four,
Bush Tetras,
The Standells,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kayak,
Joensuu 1685,
Zero Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Stiv Bators,
10cc,
Scrapy,
Moebius,
The Residents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Slave,
In Retrospect,
Hardrive,
Howard Jones,
The Gap Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hasil Adkins,
Agitation Free,
Minor Threat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.