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 Bangladesh and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kevin Saunderson to the crunk 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Duran Duran,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pop Group,
Adolescents,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Khruangbin,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Monks,
Mad Mike,
Quadrant,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Excepter,
Grey Daturas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ituana,
The Fugs,
Inner City,
John Lydon,
The Fall,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bronski Beat,
Skarface,
Ponytail,
Eric Copeland,
Blancmange,
Schoolly D,
Max Romeo,
The American Breed,
The Last Poets,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mojo Men,
Au Pairs,
Alice Coltrane,
the Fania All-Stars,
Arthur Verocai,
Crooked Eye,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radiohead,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Martian,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hot Snakes,
The New Christs,
Depeche Mode,
Scientists,
Andrew Hill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Swans,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.