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 Switzerland and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 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 Roger Hodgson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken 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?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aaron Thompson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wasted Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Womack,
Al Stewart,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Slits,
The Fuzztones,
Black Bananas,
LL Cool J,
Bush Tetras,
The Five Americans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Letta Mbulu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dennis Brown,
The Remains,
Black Sheep,
Joe Finger,
The United States of America,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eyeless In Gaza,
Connie Case,
F. McDonald,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Magma,
Absolute Body Control,
T. Rex,
Peter and Kerry,
Byron Stingily,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
K-Klass,
Inner City,
Jawbox,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Zeros,
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Wells,
Crash Course in Science,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Shadows of Knight,
Neil Young,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.