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 Suriname and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Josef K to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Beasts of Bourbon,
KRS-One,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Reagan Youth,
Harmonia,
Marshall Jefferson,
MC5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aswad,
Derrick Morgan,
Cymande,
B.T. Express,
Symarip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Qualms,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Unwound,
Country Teasers,
Outsiders,
The Buckinghams,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed,
Lower 48,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bauhaus,
Susan Cadogan,
Crime,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ice-T,
The Skatalites,
Thompson Twins,
a-ha,
Scientists,
kango's stein massive,
UT,
Fear,
The Index,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Q and Not U,
The Offenders,
The Misunderstood,
U.S. Maple,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skriet,
Urselle,
Davy DMX,
The Slits,
Altered Images,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.