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 Ireland and from London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ultra Naté to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
June Days,
Moebius,
Panda Bear,
Warsaw,
Aural Exciters,
Ludus,
Section 25,
The Red Krayola,
Girls At Our Best!,
Desert Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
The Tremeloes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
The Zeros,
Sister Nancy,
Alice Coltrane,
Average White Band,
ABBA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deadbeat,
The Walker Brothers,
Make Up,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ice-T,
Los Fastidios,
Altered Images,
Robert Hood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Monochrome Set,
The Motions,
Mr. Review,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Selecter,
Saccharine Trust,
Sound Behaviour,
Stiv Bators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cymande,
Terry Callier,
Gong,
The Velvet Underground,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fluxion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ronan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Silicon Teens,
Barrington Levy,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.