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 Fiji and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 sitar 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 Marcia Griffiths to the crunk 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Talk Talk,
Juan Atkins,
Massinfluence,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Steve Hackett,
Visage,
Flipper,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hasil Adkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Black Flag,
Section 25,
The Toasters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Arab on Radar,
Pagans,
Stiv Bators,
Nik Kershaw,
The Leaves,
Schoolly D,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Throbbing Gristle,
New Order,
AZ,
Inner City,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
New York Dolls,
Yusef Lateef,
Amon Düül,
The Standells,
Reagan Youth,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Angels of Light,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Susan Cadogan,
Spoonie Gee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Negative Approach,
Lower 48,
Faraquet,
The Cramps,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deadbeat,
Rufus Thomas,
Radio Birdman,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ornette Coleman,
Groovy Waters,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.