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 Antigua and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Nik Kershaw to the techno 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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Franke,
Isaac Hayes,
Oblivians,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amon Düül II,
Pulsallama,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Angels of Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Moon,
Whodini,
Barbara Tucker,
Kenny Larkin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Audionom,
Depeche Mode,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Style,
The Modern Lovers,
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
Porter Ricks,
Main Source,
The Slits,
Scrapy,
Brick,
Colin Newman,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Lynne,
Flamin' Groovies,
Josef K,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
ABC,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fire Engines,
Masters at Work,
Yazoo,
Agitation Free,
JFA,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Holt,
Gang Green,
Yellowson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Count Five,
John Coltrane,
The Skatalites,
Deadbeat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mark Hollis,
Excepter,
World's Most,
Warsaw,
Graham Central Station,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.