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 Peru and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 Camberwell Now to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pere Ubu,
Lalann,
Motorama,
Joe Finger,
Graham Central Station,
Reagan Youth,
Country Teasers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crime,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mad Mike,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gories,
The New Christs,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Iggy Pop,
Newcleus,
Gong,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minor Threat,
Faust,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Colin Newman,
Skriet,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jeff Lynne,
Make Up,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sparks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Banda Bassotti,
Subhumans,
Massinfluence,
Godley & Creme,
Groovy Waters,
Aswad,
X-Ray Spex,
Amon Düül II,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grey Daturas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arcadia,
Rites of Spring,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Brand Nubian,
UT,
Lower 48,
Porter Ricks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fugazi,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.