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 Paraguay and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Men They Couldn't Hang to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
The Cramps,
The Wake,
Curtis Mayfield,
Duran Duran,
Sandy B,
Jacques Brel,
Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eli Mardock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fat Boys,
a-ha,
Roxette,
The Skatalites,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Litter,
Nas,
Gong,
Vainqueur,
Cheater Slicks,
Scientists,
Rufus Thomas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Aswad,
Stetsasonic,
David McCallum,
F. McDonald,
The Moleskins,
Moby Grape,
Peter and Kerry,
The Electric Prunes,
The Mummies,
Judy Mowatt,
Chris & Cosey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harmonia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mars,
Black Pus,
Wire,
Fela Kuti,
Popol Vuh,
Mo-Dettes,
Negative Approach,
Minnie Riperton,
Mission of Burma,
Pole,
Subhumans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Wyatt,
Morten Harket,
Ronnie Foster,
The Modern Lovers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jacob Miller,
The Birthday Party,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.