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 Tanzania and from Calgary.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Index to the funk 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Glenn Branca,
New York Dolls,
Joy Division,
Joe Smooth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agent Orange,
Kerri Chandler,
Gang Starr,
Khruangbin,
Faraquet,
Minor Threat,
Stereo Dub,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Coltrane,
Deepchord,
Barrington Levy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Todd Rundgren,
Hot Snakes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boz Scaggs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Foxx,
The Motions,
Altered Images,
L. Decosne,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ronan,
Chrome,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mojo Men,
Brick,
Joyce Sims,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Visage,
The Kinks,
Rod Modell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
PIL,
Mars,
The Human League,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Thompson Twins,
China Crisis,
The Golliwogs,
Con Funk Shun,
Morten Harket,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Bowie,
Scrapy,
Sound Behaviour,
Banda Bassotti,
The Birthday Party,
The Fall,
The Happenings,
Camouflage,
Janne Schatter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.