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 Kenya and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lalo Schifrin to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Mark Hollis,
ABBA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Almond,
The Moleskins,
Newcleus,
Surgeon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Martian,
Animal Collective,
Wire,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
The Blackbyrds,
Vladislav Delay,
Los Fastidios,
Supertramp,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
OOIOO,
Public Image Ltd.,
Severed Heads,
Roy Ayers,
Con Funk Shun,
Zero Boys,
Gang of Four,
Public Enemy,
June Days,
Skarface,
Parry Music,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dark Day,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Andrew Hill,
Amon Düül,
Country Teasers,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Livin' Joy,
Fela Kuti,
Warren Ellis,
Maleditus Sound,
Camouflage,
The Wake,
H. Thieme,
Robert Görl,
Adolescents,
Kerri Chandler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Silicon Teens,
John Foxx,
Judy Mowatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
48th St. Collective,
Minutemen,
Make Up,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.