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 El Salvador and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rufus Thomas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Scott Walker,
The Searchers,
Circle Jerks,
Sällskapet,
New Order,
Kas Product,
Soulsonic Force,
The Smoke,
Outsiders,
The J.B.'s,
Nik Kershaw,
ABBA,
The Kinks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ten City,
John Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Warren Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gories,
Whodini,
Sun Ra,
Faust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Au Pairs,
Cameo,
Aswad,
B.T. Express,
Blake Baxter,
Technova,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Negative Approach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Suburban Knight,
Barry Ungar,
Animal Collective,
the Germs,
Ohio Players,
Sparks,
Marvin Gaye,
Altered Images,
Magazine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sex Pistols,
John Holt,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ken Boothe,
Zapp,
Delta 5,
Fear,
Fad Gadget,
Chris Corsano,
Minny Pops,
Roxy Music,
Letta Mbulu,
Icehouse,
Marmalade,
Frankie Knuckles,
Amon Düül,
Aural Exciters,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.