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 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 the Bar-Kays to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
The Index,
The Divine Comedy,
Siglo XX,
Hashim,
Tim Buckley,
Bobby Sherman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Main Source,
Kas Product,
Liliput,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Easy Going,
Gang Green,
Albert Ayler,
the Germs,
Lou Reed,
The Young Rascals,
The Offenders,
Negative Approach,
Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amazonics,
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Matthew Bourne,
David Axelrod,
Harpers Bizarre,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marc Almond,
Dual Sessions,
Lalo Schifrin,
Con Funk Shun,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Tremeloes,
Suicide,
Saccharine Trust,
Severed Heads,
Marmalade,
The Smiths,
Black Flag,
Heaven 17,
Aural Exciters,
Donald Byrd,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Junior Murvin,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chrome,
Eli Mardock,
Bang On A Can,
Matthew Halsall,
Erasure,
Joey Negro,
Zapp,
E-Dancer,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Grass Roots,
Delta 5,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Saints,
The Buckinghams,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.