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 Bahrain and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Holger Czukay 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 Von Mondo to the dance 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Vogues,
These Immortal Souls,
Chris Corsano,
the Normal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deakin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rapeman,
The Young Rascals,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maurizio,
Tears for Fears,
Popol Vuh,
Yellowson,
T.S.O.L.,
Camouflage,
Livin' Joy,
Chrome,
Mark Hollis,
Sugar Minott,
Girls At Our Best!,
L. Decosne,
Lindisfarne,
Eve St. Jones,
The Angels of Light,
Mantronix,
The Doors,
Tres Demented,
Yusef Lateef,
June Days,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Motions,
Mandrill,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Iggy Pop,
Q65,
Bauhaus,
Stereo Dub,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roxy Music,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
Dead Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Absolute Body Control,
Cecil Taylor,
X-101,
John Holt,
Ponytail,
Loose Ends,
The Fall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Josef K,
The American Breed,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gun Club,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.