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 Sierra Leone and from Lille.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Minor Threat to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Brand Nubian,
Terrestrial Tones,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Subhumans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mark Hollis,
Nas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sight & Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Suicide,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Khruangbin,
Electric Prunes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Von Mondo,
Fugazi,
New Age Steppers,
The Selecter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
Guru Guru,
Ken Boothe,
The Busters,
Monks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deadbeat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Evens,
Charles Mingus,
Cluster,
The Litter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kurtis Blow,
The Zeros,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Arab on Radar,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxette,
Ronnie Foster,
The Black Dice,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Slave,
Lungfish,
T.S.O.L.,
The Seeds,
Magma,
Flipper,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blackbyrds,
The Skatalites,
The Gun Club,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.