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 Mexico and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Public Image Ltd. to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
The Wake,
John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vainqueur,
MDC,
Section 25,
Morten Harket,
X-Ray Spex,
Minnie Riperton,
Blake Baxter,
Max Romeo,
Joe Smooth,
Sexual Harrassment,
Funkadelic,
Sex Pistols,
Tim Buckley,
Aloha Tigers,
The Kinks,
Youth Brigade,
Shoche,
Motorama,
La Düsseldorf,
Sällskapet,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Country Teasers,
Fad Gadget,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warsaw,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Cramps,
Ice-T,
Ornette Coleman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Black Bananas,
Erykah Badu,
Electric Prunes,
MC5,
DNA,
Alice Coltrane,
Lightning Bolt,
The Toasters,
Easy Going,
Bluetip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Altered Images,
Electric Light Orchestra,
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.