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 Ivory Coast and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Mummies to the rock 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sight & Sound,
the Bar-Kays,
Dual Sessions,
Kenny Larkin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Barry Ungar,
Camouflage,
Bootsy Collins,
Steve Hackett,
Essential Logic,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vladislav Delay,
John Foxx,
Saccharine Trust,
David Axelrod,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sandy B,
ABC,
Pylon,
One Last Wish,
Visage,
Wolf Eyes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lower 48,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pole,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
Lightning Bolt,
PIL,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Avey Tare,
U.S. Maple,
Carl Craig,
Radiohead,
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deadbeat,
Nik Kershaw,
Pussy Galore,
Anakelly,
The Monochrome Set,
The Knickerbockers,
Young Marble Giants,
MDC,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eve St. Jones,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.