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 Poland and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Loose Ends to the funk 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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
Derrick Morgan,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Judy Mowatt,
F. McDonald,
Eve St. Jones,
Pole,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bang On A Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Black Moon,
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dennis Brown,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sällskapet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick May,
The Techniques,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sarah Menescal,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Terry,
Main Source,
One Last Wish,
Isaac Hayes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Whodini,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxy Music,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Almond,
Steve Hackett,
Moebius,
10cc,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pop Group,
Skaos,
Sandy B,
the Soft Cell,
Spoonie Gee,
David Axelrod,
Magma,
Magazine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Grass Roots,
DJ Sneak,
The Toasters,
a-ha,
Can,
The Misunderstood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gories,
New Age Steppers,
The Gun Club,
Agent Orange,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.