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 Lebanon and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet 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 Jacob Miller to the funk 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Derrick Morgan,
Siglo XX,
Sugar Minott,
Kenny Larkin,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Al Stewart,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Green,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zapp,
Marmalade,
Dark Day,
Sällskapet,
Saccharine Trust,
Barbara Tucker,
Althea and Donna,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vladislav Delay,
World's Most,
Pantaleimon,
Radiohead,
U.S. Maple,
Isaac Hayes,
Zero Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Marine Girls,
China Crisis,
Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Raincoats,
The Vogues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Byron Stingily,
The Walker Brothers,
John Coltrane,
Mark Hollis,
Scientists,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
AZ,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Bar-Kays,
Lindisfarne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Almond,
The Stooges,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
Cybotron,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roxette,
Sun City Girls,
Shoche,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lakeside,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.