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 Mali and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 güiro 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 Throbbing Gristle to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Eurythmics,
Duran Duran,
Alison Limerick,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Can,
Model 500,
Matthew Halsall,
Slave,
Barrington Levy,
The Leaves,
The Electric Prunes,
MC5,
Outsiders,
T.S.O.L.,
Pole,
Au Pairs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Womack,
Cymande,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skaos,
Magazine,
Wolf Eyes,
Spoonie Gee,
Second Layer,
The American Breed,
Sandy B,
The Evens,
Accadde A,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Slits,
Hasil Adkins,
Marc Almond,
Television Personalities,
Maleditus Sound,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Schoolly D,
Japan,
The Invisible,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cramps,
The Wake,
Davy DMX,
Flipper,
Loose Ends,
Flash Fearless,
Subhumans,
Echospace,
Letta Mbulu,
Visage,
Lakeside,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moss Icon,
Joe Finger,
Robert Görl,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Procol Harum,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.