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 Samoa and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kinks to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Pantaleimon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
Swans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Loose Ends,
Chrome,
Yellowson,
Bluetip,
Oneida,
Chris & Cosey,
John Lydon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Zero Boys,
AZ,
Interpol,
Charles Mingus,
Yusef Lateef,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Absolute Body Control,
Rod Modell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Althea and Donna,
Quando Quango,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barry Ungar,
The Fugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Babytalk,
Oblivians,
The Birthday Party,
Magma,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gories,
KRS-One,
Fluxion,
Mad Mike,
Mo-Dettes,
The Grass Roots,
kango's stein massive,
F. McDonald,
Flipper,
Eric B and Rakim,
Danielle Patucci,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roxy Music,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.