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 Zimbabwe and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Television to the funk 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Coltrane,
Absolute Body Control,
Albert Ayler,
FM Einheit,
the Association,
Ronan,
Sound Behaviour,
The Divine Comedy,
Lakeside,
Anthony Braxton,
Faust,
Erykah Badu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Make Up,
F. McDonald,
John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dual Sessions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fluxion,
Visage,
James White and The Blacks,
Swans,
Liliput,
The Remains,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bob Dylan,
Pet Shop Boys,
ABBA,
The Victims,
Magazine,
Aaron Thompson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
One Last Wish,
Accadde A,
Traffic Nightmare,
LL Cool J,
The Durutti Column,
Au Pairs,
Suicide,
X-101,
The Gladiators,
kango's stein massive,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ken Boothe,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Von Mondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
Excepter,
Outsiders,
The Red Krayola,
Sun Ra,
Fugazi,
Neu!,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.