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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 Ken Boothe to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
La Düsseldorf,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bob Dylan,
Wasted Youth,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
Suburban Knight,
Can,
the Bar-Kays,
Porter Ricks,
Franke,
Ponytail,
Soft Cell,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blues Magoos,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Smoke,
Pet Shop Boys,
Junior Murvin,
Brass Construction,
Lungfish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arab on Radar,
Funky Four + One,
Rites of Spring,
Accadde A,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
This Heat,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed,
Scratch Acid,
The Cure,
Black Pus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Visage,
Royal Trux,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Connie Case,
Todd Terry,
Scientists,
The Blackbyrds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Charles Mingus,
The Martian,
Kayak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bobby Byrd,
The Angels of Light,
Brick,
Camouflage,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Outsiders,
Barry Ungar,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.