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 Congo and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moleskins,
Qualms,
The Index,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters,
The Gories,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gang Green,
Eurythmics,
Bad Manners,
Mandrill,
The Sound,
Metal Thangz,
Magma,
Quadrant,
Infiniti,
Masters at Work,
Hasil Adkins,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lalo Schifrin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
ABC,
The American Breed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Kas Product,
Negative Approach,
Crooked Eye,
The Modern Lovers,
Fat Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Au Pairs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Matthew Halsall,
The Martian,
The Monochrome Set,
Soulsonic Force,
Arab on Radar,
Bush Tetras,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Soul Sonic Force,
Surgeon,
Lou Christie,
Kayak,
Kenny Larkin,
Donald Byrd,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Whodini,
Boz Scaggs,
John Cale,
Cal Tjader,
John Coltrane,
Pere Ubu,
The Cowsills,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.