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 Swaziland and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Little Man to the grunge 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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms 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?
Boredoms,
Roger Hodgson,
Basic Channel,
Roxette,
The United States of America,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fortunes,
Gabor Szabo,
The Durutti Column,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shuggie Otis,
Quando Quango,
Godley & Creme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Human League,
The Modern Lovers,
the Normal,
Surgeon,
Icehouse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Associates,
Laurel Aitken,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Black Flag,
Kenny Larkin,
A Certain Ratio,
Organ,
Kurtis Blow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
F. McDonald,
Howard Jones,
The Moleskins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Green,
Dawn Penn,
L. Decosne,
Con Funk Shun,
Scan 7,
The Divine Comedy,
Buzzcocks,
The Busters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Japan,
Adolescents,
Pole,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pagans,
Newcleus,
Kas Product,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donny Hathaway,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bluetip,
DJ Style,
La Düsseldorf,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.