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 Liechtenstein and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 Sällskapet to the grunge 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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Little Man,
Young Marble Giants,
Metal Thangz,
Silicon Teens,
Maleditus Sound,
Skarface,
Gang of Four,
Rapeman,
Dual Sessions,
Ice-T,
Eli Mardock,
Darondo,
Josef K,
the Fania All-Stars,
One Last Wish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Negative Approach,
The Leaves,
Television,
David McCallum,
The Happenings,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed,
Moss Icon,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rites of Spring,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
Steve Hackett,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alice Coltrane,
Ten City,
MDC,
Skriet,
The Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
Donald Byrd,
Soulsonic Force,
New Order,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fear,
Max Romeo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Slits,
Minnie Riperton,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Magma,
Leonard Cohen,
Janne Schatter,
Warsaw,
Piero Umiliani,
Stetsasonic,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.