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 Dominican Republic and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gong to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Metal Thangz,
Dave Gahan,
Los Fastidios,
Vladislav Delay,
Scientists,
Flash Fearless,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ossler,
Sällskapet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cure,
the Swans,
Eve St. Jones,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heaven 17,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Vogues,
The Blackbyrds,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Foxx,
Minnie Riperton,
Reuben Wilson,
T.S.O.L.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jerry's Kids,
Average White Band,
Cluster,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Seeds,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Wells,
Ash Ra Tempel,
In Retrospect,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Rundgren,
Sister Nancy,
Ohio Players,
Absolute Body Control,
Motorama,
Con Funk Shun,
Joe Smooth,
Rotary Connection,
Crispy Ambulance,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marmalade,
Amazonics,
The Cowsills,
Index,
The Buckinghams,
Easy Going,
Charles Mingus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalann,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.