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 Nepal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Donald Fagen 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 Johnny Clarke to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
The Zeros,
Soft Cell,
The Gun Club,
Colin Newman,
The Neon Judgement,
Television,
Blossom Toes,
F. McDonald,
Silicon Teens,
Joensuu 1685,
E-Dancer,
The Searchers,
Bizarre Inc.,
In Retrospect,
Joy Division,
New Order,
Curtis Mayfield,
Delon & Dalcan,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Remains,
Steve Hackett,
Kenny Larkin,
Terry Callier,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fluxion,
The Stooges,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Doors,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tres Demented,
Rapeman,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kaleidoscope,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mark Hollis,
Clear Light,
Rekid,
The Mojo Men,
Electric Prunes,
Blancmange,
Josef K,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Girls At Our Best!,
Banda Bassotti,
The Move,
Black Sheep,
Monks,
K-Klass,
Siglo XX,
The Beau Brummels,
Shuggie Otis,
Yazoo,
Simply Red,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.