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 Turkey and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cybotron to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Pere Ubu,
Piero Umiliani,
Royal Trux,
Faraquet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Qualms,
John Foxx,
The Slits,
Darondo,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Model 500,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arab on Radar,
Nils Olav,
Lebanon Hanover,
Second Layer,
Absolute Body Control,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blancmange,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deakin,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Last Poets,
Talk Talk,
The Cramps,
Franke,
E-Dancer,
The Knickerbockers,
The Smiths,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lucky Dragons,
Roy Ayers,
Gichy Dan,
Erasure,
DJ Style,
Morten Harket,
China Crisis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rosa Yemen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reuben Wilson,
Icehouse,
The Flesh Eaters,
Barbara Tucker,
The Black Dice,
Ronan,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The J.B.'s,
The Gun Club,
Adolescents,
Public Enemy,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Blackbyrds,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.