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 Liechtenstein and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Underground Resistance,
The Pop Group,
UT,
Lungfish,
Fela Kuti,
The Fugs,
Pole,
Nirvana,
Prince Buster,
China Crisis,
The Durutti Column,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fluxion,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hot Snakes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anakelly,
DJ Sneak,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Loose Ends,
Jandek,
Motorama,
Bad Manners,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cowsills,
Stetsasonic,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Tremeloes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Chrome,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ornette Coleman,
Deepchord,
The Moody Blues,
Jerry's Kids,
Talk Talk,
Schoolly D,
Todd Rundgren,
Radio Birdman,
Wire,
The Divine Comedy,
Don Cherry,
Dark Day,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantytec,
Nick Fraelich,
Q and Not U,
Porter Ricks,
Erykah Badu,
The Neon Judgement,
Spandau Ballet,
Skaos,
Joyce Sims,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.