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 Afghanistan and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 Tomorrow to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Reagan Youth,
Von Mondo,
Don Cherry,
Rapeman,
Boredoms,
Pussy Galore,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Anthony Braxton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Subhumans,
AZ,
Metal Thangz,
Suicide,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mission of Burma,
MDC,
Buzzcocks,
Can,
Country Teasers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Livin' Joy,
L. Decosne,
Derrick Morgan,
Alton Ellis,
The Smoke,
Pharoah Sanders,
Little Man,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sound,
Young Marble Giants,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare,
Bill Wells,
Sight & Sound,
David Axelrod,
The Doors,
The Kinks,
Deepchord,
Ten City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
Index,
Graham Central Station,
Sarah Menescal,
Vladislav Delay,
Arab on Radar,
The Buckinghams,
Matthew Halsall,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.