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 Belarus and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Blake Baxter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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,
Fatback Band,
The Offenders,
The Selecter,
Stockholm Monsters,
DNA,
Essential Logic,
Bang On A Can,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
This Heat,
Young Marble Giants,
Yellowson,
Eden Ahbez,
Negative Approach,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Smoke,
Marc Almond,
Underground Resistance,
The Gap Band,
FM Einheit,
Symarip,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moss Icon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Slave,
Sight & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chrome,
Scratch Acid,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Delta 5,
Robert Hood,
John Foxx,
UT,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Little Man,
Depeche Mode,
The Saints,
The Dead C,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Zapp,
The Martian,
Joey Negro,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass,
Barrington Levy,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Albert Ayler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Can,
Aswad,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.