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 Sweden and from Mumbai.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 AZ to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Pagans,
Faust,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Foxx,
Heaven 17,
PIL,
Pantaleimon,
Rapeman,
This Heat,
Kayak,
Peter & Gordon,
Model 500,
Lou Reed,
Buzzcocks,
Nirvana,
The Toasters,
The Blackbyrds,
Faraquet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
CMW,
The Monks,
Visage,
Godley & Creme,
Bob Dylan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hoover,
Harpers Bizarre,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Green,
Iggy Pop,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Amazonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Age Steppers,
Dual Sessions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Talk Talk,
cv313,
The Misunderstood,
The Knickerbockers,
Ponytail,
Essential Logic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kerri Chandler,
The Doobie Brothers,
Henry Cow,
Althea and Donna,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quadrant,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Duran Duran,
Sam Rivers,
Severed Heads,
The Fall,
Bluetip,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.