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 Botswana and from Houston.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Mantronix to the rock 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Kinks,
Ken Boothe,
The Move,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Motorama,
Negative Approach,
Boogie Down Productions,
Spoonie Gee,
EPMD,
48th St. Collective,
Arab on Radar,
Slick Rick,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Susan Cadogan,
The Misunderstood,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Remains,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
L. Decosne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Wyatt,
World's Most,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Max Romeo,
Hardrive,
The Saints,
Fatback Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Cluster,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
DNA,
Fela Kuti,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Offenders,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Steve Hackett,
Bob Dylan,
The Selecter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
Fear,
X-102,
Stetsasonic,
Newcleus,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Los Fastidios,
Delta 5,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.