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 Philippines and from Johannesburg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ultravox to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
The Misunderstood,
The Happenings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alphaville,
Eric Dolphy,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Hill,
The Electric Prunes,
Eurythmics,
Excepter,
Deepchord,
Unrelated Segments,
CMW,
Pantaleimon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bill Near,
Goldenarms,
Agitation Free,
Sun Ra,
Neil Young,
Scrapy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
Accadde A,
Harry Pussy,
Surgeon,
Barrington Levy,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amon Düül,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The United States of America,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Al Stewart,
Sugar Minott,
the Sonics,
Urselle,
Pussy Galore,
Los Fastidios,
Swans,
Morten Harket,
The Associates,
AZ,
Sparks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Glenn Branca,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Nick Fraelich,
The Music Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Max Romeo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.