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 Paraguay and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bad Manners to the crunk 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Idris Muhammad,
The Slackers,
Radiohead,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Sonics,
Procol Harum,
Laurel Aitken,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Godley & Creme,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Model 500,
Royal Trux,
Kas Product,
Malaria!,
Wings,
Thompson Twins,
Dark Day,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Velvet Underground,
The Motions,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Techniques,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sällskapet,
D'Angelo,
Ice-T,
The Tremeloes,
Sun Ra,
Peter & Gordon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
One Last Wish,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Al Stewart,
Steve Hackett,
The Monks,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeru the Damaja,
Masters at Work,
Max Romeo,
the Association,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultra Naté,
The Fugs,
Clear Light,
Marmalade,
Tommy Roe,
Scrapy,
Outsiders,
The Happenings,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mad Mike,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.