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 St Lucia and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Avey Tare,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
Liliput,
Masters at Work,
Barrington Levy,
Funkadelic,
Freddie Wadling,
Archie Shepp,
PIL,
Animal Collective,
Bauhaus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mission of Burma,
Neil Young,
Ultravox,
Pantaleimon,
Pagans,
Bad Manners,
Barclay James Harvest,
Banda Bassotti,
UT,
the Sonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Almond,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Swans,
The Kinks,
Bush Tetras,
Franke,
These Immortal Souls,
Duran Duran,
the Normal,
The Remains,
Excepter,
Al Stewart,
Wolf Eyes,
Model 500,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mantronix,
Fela Kuti,
Girls At Our Best!,
David McCallum,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blossom Toes,
Adolescents,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
Rekid,
Das Ding,
FM Einheit,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Sherman,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.