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 Gabon and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
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 organ 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 Joe Smooth to the grunge 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Michelle Simonal,
Pierre Henry,
Thompson Twins,
Bootsy Collins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Icehouse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
E-Dancer,
Sugar Minott,
Lungfish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ronnie Foster,
The United States of America,
Kayak,
Lakeside,
Jeff Lynne,
Scratch Acid,
the Germs,
Technova,
F. McDonald,
Trumans Water,
Robert Hood,
Reagan Youth,
Schoolly D,
KRS-One,
Magma,
cv313,
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Modern Lovers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Althea and Donna,
Nick Fraelich,
The Birthday Party,
Stereo Dub,
Boz Scaggs,
Hoover,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Wyatt,
Section 25,
EPMD,
The Leaves,
Maleditus Sound,
Erasure,
Essential Logic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Monolake,
Sister Nancy,
Max Romeo,
Letta Mbulu,
Blake Baxter,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sandy B,
Maurizio,
The Evens,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aural Exciters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.