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 Uruguay and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 CMW 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Model 500,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Smoke,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
Crime,
The Seeds,
Zero Boys,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
A Certain Ratio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gichy Dan,
Kayak,
Sex Pistols,
The Fall,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roxy Music,
The Cramps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Evens,
Deakin,
The Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Connie Case,
China Crisis,
Radio Birdman,
The Selecter,
The Pop Group,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy,
Spoonie Gee,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jerry's Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lucky Dragons,
Suburban Knight,
X-102,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
June of 44,
Royal Trux,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eurythmics,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiohead,
Roy Ayers,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
Skarface,
Steve Hackett,
The Walker Brothers,
Hoover,
Porter Ricks,
Youth Brigade,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.