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 Korea North and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Salvador.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 La Düsseldorf to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alton Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Tom Boy,
Eden Ahbez,
Porter Ricks,
Gong,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Robert Hood,
Guru Guru,
Dual Sessions,
Letta Mbulu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fat Boys,
Kenny Larkin,
Rosa Yemen,
Gerry Rafferty,
Erykah Badu,
Rakim,
the Swans,
Accadde A,
Wire,
Cybotron,
The Remains,
Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
Scion,
AZ,
the Sonics,
Visage,
Scientists,
Blossom Toes,
Agitation Free,
Brothers Johnson,
Yazoo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Dirtbombs,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultravox,
The Smiths,
The Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Model 500,
Pussy Galore,
Scan 7,
Johnny Clarke,
The Trojans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sound Behaviour,
The Techniques,
Bob Dylan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wolf Eyes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Royal Trux,
T.S.O.L.,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.