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 Switzerland and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb 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 Nico to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lee Hazlewood,
Yaz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed,
Theoretical Girls,
Patti Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
U.S. Maple,
Second Layer,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gladiators,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
Fela Kuti,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Talk Talk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visage,
Sparks,
Eddi Front,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minny Pops,
Pulsallama,
Black Moon,
Agitation Free,
The Blackbyrds,
Howard Jones,
Yazoo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
David McCallum,
Symarip,
Man Parrish,
The Durutti Column,
Moebius,
Gang Gang Dance,
Charles Mingus,
Brand Nubian,
Susan Cadogan,
Boz Scaggs,
The Grass Roots,
Dark Day,
The Fire Engines,
The Searchers,
The Residents,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Stetsasonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sugar Minott,
Delta 5,
Unwound,
Joyce Sims,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Smiths,
Con Funk Shun,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kenny Larkin,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.