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 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Evens to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pole,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Blackbyrds,
Television Personalities,
Rod Modell,
Marshall Jefferson,
China Crisis,
The Golliwogs,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Agitation Free,
Pierre Henry,
Radio Birdman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Saccharine Trust,
Simply Red,
Franke,
Black Sheep,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Niagra,
Dual Sessions,
The Buckinghams,
Brand Nubian,
Sound Behaviour,
Royal Trux,
Lightning Bolt,
Camouflage,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cameo,
Pylon,
Bronski Beat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lyres,
The Young Rascals,
Cecil Taylor,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mars,
Audionom,
Yellowson,
JFA,
Tears for Fears,
FM Einheit,
Mad Mike,
Boz Scaggs,
Newcleus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cymande,
Iggy Pop,
Pantytec,
Inner City,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Youth Brigade,
Fat Boys,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.