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 Belize and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young to the punk 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
In Retrospect,
Flash Fearless,
cv313,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultravox,
The Star Department,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sixth Finger,
Schoolly D,
Fluxion,
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
Franke,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Massinfluence,
Dark Day,
T.S.O.L.,
Fear,
Godley & Creme,
Sun Ra,
Lyres,
Pagans,
Lindisfarne,
L. Decosne,
New Age Steppers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Urselle,
Alice Coltrane,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
Pantytec,
The Names,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Tremeloes,
Circle Jerks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Agitation Free,
Kas Product,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-Ray Spex,
kango's stein massive,
Television Personalities,
CMW,
Swell Maps,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Pretty Things,
Mission of Burma,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
The Black Dice,
Roxy Music,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.