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 United Kingdom and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Flash Fearless to the electroclash 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Rapeman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Camberwell Now,
Boredoms,
Steve Hackett,
Ossler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Goldenarms,
Minor Threat,
Fluxion,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Babytalk,
The Electric Prunes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cymande,
Rufus Thomas,
Swell Maps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ice-T,
Sight & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
DJ Style,
John Holt,
Gang Starr,
Country Teasers,
Half Japanese,
the Human League,
Erasure,
Nirvana,
Johnny Osbourne,
Q and Not U,
Lee Hazlewood,
Masters at Work,
Sister Nancy,
Bootsy Collins,
Guru Guru,
Harmonia,
Dave Gahan,
Faraquet,
Wally Richardson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Christie,
The Martian,
Dead Boys,
Fat Boys,
Sällskapet,
Sound Behaviour,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Sonics,
Bobby Sherman,
Bill Near,
Morten Harket,
Mars,
F. McDonald,
Pantaleimon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.