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 Serbia and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Cowsills to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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?
Negative Approach,
Altered Images,
The Real Kids,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Iggy Pop,
China Crisis,
David McCallum,
Stockholm Monsters,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Lyres,
Soft Cell,
Little Man,
Subhumans,
Duran Duran,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tres Demented,
Al Stewart,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Laurel Aitken,
Hot Snakes,
Eden Ahbez,
Big Daddy Kane,
Isaac Hayes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
The Gories,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
New York Dolls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lebanon Hanover,
David Axelrod,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cymande,
Barrington Levy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Normal,
Tears for Fears,
DJ Style,
The Sonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
Franke,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Toasters,
Amon Düül,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Stetsasonic,
Shoche,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.