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 Grenada and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Eddi Front to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Metal Thangz,
Monolake,
Crispy Ambulance,
Basic Channel,
Dorothy Ashby,
Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Scratch Acid,
Don Cherry,
Josef K,
Harmonia,
Eric Copeland,
Tom Boy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fat Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dave Clark Five,
DJ Sneak,
Saccharine Trust,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
Drexciya,
The Modern Lovers,
Shoche,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantaleimon,
Bill Near,
Lower 48,
Flash Fearless,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Magma,
Pylon,
Prince Buster,
Marc Almond,
Unwound,
A Certain Ratio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Albert Ayler,
Ituana,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Associates,
The Human League,
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reagan Youth,
Simply Red,
Gabor Szabo,
Barrington Levy,
Boredoms,
Davy DMX,
Joey Negro,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Evens,
The Offenders,
Jawbox,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.