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 Tunisia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
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 sitar 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 Scion to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Index,
Jeff Mills,
Hashim,
China Crisis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Raincoats,
The J.B.'s,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Al Stewart,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Leaves,
Roxy Music,
The Music Machine,
One Last Wish,
Zapp,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donny Hathaway,
the Swans,
Nas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delta 5,
Rod Modell,
Ituana,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
Television Personalities,
Ultravox,
Eurythmics,
Goldenarms,
Skriet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lakeside,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Maleditus Sound,
Nils Olav,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter & Gordon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Boz Scaggs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television,
Half Japanese,
Tubeway Army,
The Selecter,
Y Pants,
Rapeman,
The Smiths,
Sam Rivers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pretty Things,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sound Behaviour,
Hardrive,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.