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 Bulgaria 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 Talk Talk to the rap 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Mandrill,
Albert Ayler,
Zapp,
Soul II Soul,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Absolute Body Control,
Faraquet,
The Misunderstood,
Buzzcocks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moebius,
Ten City,
Eric Dolphy,
Johnny Clarke,
Piero Umiliani,
Susan Cadogan,
Dead Boys,
Ituana,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Groovy Waters,
the Germs,
Wasted Youth,
X-102,
Camberwell Now,
Skaos,
Jandek,
Lee Hazlewood,
Section 25,
The Cowsills,
Severed Heads,
Cecil Taylor,
Kaleidoscope,
Terrestrial Tones,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Warren Ellis,
Index,
Scan 7,
Hot Snakes,
Electric Prunes,
Tim Buckley,
AZ,
Lucky Dragons,
John Foxx,
Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Ohio Players,
The Kinks,
Fluxion,
Pere Ubu,
Parry Music,
Harmonia,
Franke,
Excepter,
Slave,
Underground Resistance,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.