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 Bolivia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 Severed Heads to the rap 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
Moby Grape,
Yaz,
Grauzone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bauhaus,
Minny Pops,
the Normal,
Reagan Youth,
Basic Channel,
John Foxx,
Magazine,
Dual Sessions,
Subhumans,
The Kinks,
Newcleus,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Arthur Verocai,
Sight & Sound,
Neu!,
The Techniques,
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lower 48,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Wyatt,
Lou Reed,
The Sonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Niagra,
Maleditus Sound,
Delta 5,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sound Behaviour,
Soul Sonic Force,
Liliput,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Black Sheep,
Mad Mike,
kango's stein massive,
Tim Buckley,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Byron Stingily,
Clear Light,
Scientists,
Brick,
Jacques Brel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Sound,
Fugazi,
New Order,
Whodini,
Easy Going,
The Real Kids,
Kurtis Blow,
The Cure,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flipper,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Dead C,
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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.