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 Ecuador and from Bremen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sonny Sharrock to the rock 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dennis Brown,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Saccharine Trust,
Yusef Lateef,
Au Pairs,
Lightning Bolt,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Dolphy,
Section 25,
MC5,
Sound Behaviour,
Main Source,
Delta 5,
Wings,
Soul Sonic Force,
Absolute Body Control,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Silicon Teens,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barry Ungar,
The Standells,
Sight & Sound,
The Trojans,
Nico,
Adolescents,
The Stooges,
LL Cool J,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Andrew Hill,
Roy Ayers,
Spandau Ballet,
EPMD,
Godley & Creme,
Animal Collective,
T.S.O.L.,
Black Moon,
The Black Dice,
Gang Gang Dance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cecil Taylor,
Rotary Connection,
Swans,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Ice-T,
The Wake,
Gang Green,
Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Style,
Fatback Band,
Interpol,
Sugar Minott,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Anakelly,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
T. Rex,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.