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 Gambia and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Moby Grape to the disco 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Flag,
Ponytail,
Cheater Slicks,
Agitation Free,
Robert Hood,
Bluetip,
Barbara Tucker,
The Last Poets,
Sparks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lakeside,
Half Japanese,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Martian,
Reagan Youth,
the Association,
Dawn Penn,
Eric Dolphy,
The Velvet Underground,
Eli Mardock,
Cameo,
The Dirtbombs,
Stetsasonic,
Duran Duran,
Spandau Ballet,
The Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Von Mondo,
Slave,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Knickerbockers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Charles Mingus,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Joey Negro,
Severed Heads,
Ornette Coleman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nas,
Alphaville,
KRS-One,
Stockholm Monsters,
Con Funk Shun,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dead Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Remains,
The Slackers,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.