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 Luxembourg and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Donald Fagen 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 Warren Ellis to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
China Crisis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Sherman,
The Searchers,
Michelle Simonal,
Unwound,
Suicide,
Tommy Roe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Pretty Things,
Charles Mingus,
Maleditus Sound,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blancmange,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
June Days,
Alphaville,
Ohio Players,
Theoretical Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jawbox,
Rosa Yemen,
June of 44,
The Doors,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Style,
John Cale,
Moss Icon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pussy Galore,
Y Pants,
Junior Murvin,
Wings,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Pole,
the Germs,
This Heat,
Skarface,
The Fall,
Barry Ungar,
The Fuzztones,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter & Gordon,
Davy DMX,
The Happenings,
Popol Vuh,
The Birthday Party,
Wolf Eyes,
Bob Dylan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
Unrelated Segments,
Groovy Waters,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.