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 Belize and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Davy DMX to the techno 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Stereo Dub,
Bauhaus,
Absolute Body Control,
Reagan Youth,
La Düsseldorf,
Eddi Front,
Metal Thangz,
Fatback Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shuggie Otis,
The Stooges,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
Cluster,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oblivians,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Görl,
The Litter,
Babytalk,
John Foxx,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fortunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Index,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Khruangbin,
Neil Young,
Talk Talk,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Aural Exciters,
the Slits,
Y Pants,
PIL,
Gong,
Ornette Coleman,
Pantaleimon,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
Bronski Beat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Symarip,
Zapp,
Scott Walker,
Tommy Roe,
Susan Cadogan,
OOIOO,
Nas,
Wally Richardson,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.