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 Guyana and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Scrapy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Traffic Nightmare,
One Last Wish,
Harmonia,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aaron Thompson,
The Grass Roots,
The Seeds,
Dark Day,
John Foxx,
Stiv Bators,
Al Stewart,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Zeros,
Sarah Menescal,
Theoretical Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Altered Images,
Television Personalities,
Cal Tjader,
Sparks,
Ohio Players,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joe Finger,
Henry Cow,
Fatback Band,
Mission of Burma,
Wire,
The Shadows of Knight,
Shoche,
Hasil Adkins,
Amazonics,
Sugar Minott,
Rosa Yemen,
Crispian St. Peters,
Magma,
Ludus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gabor Szabo,
Q and Not U,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Janne Schatter,
Boredoms,
Connie Case,
Delon & Dalcan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sonics,
The Leaves,
Kool Moe Dee,
Schoolly D,
The Gladiators,
Hardrive,
Rod Modell,
Absolute Body Control,
Iggy Pop,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ice-T,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.