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 Malta and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Spokane.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Kerrie Biddell to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Terrestrial Tones,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lyres,
The Move,
Lou Reed,
Marine Girls,
Circle Jerks,
The Zeros,
Alphaville,
Ten City,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ronnie Foster,
Von Mondo,
Arab on Radar,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Slits,
Pere Ubu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Cell,
These Immortal Souls,
Steve Hackett,
Marmalade,
Average White Band,
Guru Guru,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
The Busters,
Brothers Johnson,
John Cale,
The Five Americans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
New Age Steppers,
The American Breed,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
X-Ray Spex,
Loose Ends,
Mad Mike,
Harmonia,
Organ,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Excepter,
Scrapy,
Stereo Dub,
Porter Ricks,
Make Up,
Howard Jones,
Quantec,
Faraquet,
E-Dancer,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit,
Faust,
Sight & Sound,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.