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 Japan and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Newcleus to the crunk 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Mission of Burma,
Gang of Four,
Godley & Creme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Animal Collective,
The Beau Brummels,
Kenny Larkin,
the Germs,
DJ Sneak,
The Residents,
Soft Cell,
Moebius,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
MDC,
Pere Ubu,
Faraquet,
Cheater Slicks,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
The Doobie Brothers,
Amon Düül,
Judy Mowatt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Guru Guru,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ohio Players,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neu!,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Derrick May,
The Fire Engines,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Leonard Cohen,
Au Pairs,
Soul Sonic Force,
June Days,
Rufus Thomas,
Slave,
Goldenarms,
The Moody Blues,
Los Fastidios,
Glambeats Corp.,
Danielle Patucci,
Flipper,
Can,
Reuben Wilson,
Hardrive,
Fluxion,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Arab on Radar,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Angels of Light,
The Divine Comedy,
Fugazi,
LL Cool J,
Nico,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.