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 Ukraine and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Charles Mingus to the techno 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Roy Ayers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
The Toasters,
Second Layer,
Lakeside,
Agent Orange,
Eric B and Rakim,
Matthew Halsall,
Tom Boy,
Eric Copeland,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dead C,
Marmalade,
Crime,
The Fire Engines,
Japan,
Surgeon,
The Music Machine,
Neil Young,
Outsiders,
Reagan Youth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sarah Menescal,
Ludus,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Michelle Simonal,
Rapeman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Guru Guru,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tomorrow,
EPMD,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Davy DMX,
Stiv Bators,
The Cramps,
Dawn Penn,
Aswad,
Man Parrish,
The Divine Comedy,
Toni Rubio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Junior Murvin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sam Rivers,
Deakin,
The Gladiators,
Absolute Body Control,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rosa Yemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pierre Henry,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.