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 Nicaragua and from Shanghai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Magma to the rap 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Thee Headcoats,
Unwound,
Drive Like Jehu,
Flash Fearless,
E-Dancer,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Womack,
Tomorrow,
UT,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dual Sessions,
One Last Wish,
Lucky Dragons,
Roger Hodgson,
The Modern Lovers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Joe Finger,
Steve Hackett,
The New Christs,
Graham Central Station,
Al Stewart,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Victims,
Inner City,
Wire,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fugs,
ABBA,
Peter and Kerry,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lalo Schifrin,
The J.B.'s,
Thompson Twins,
Rakim,
The Pretty Things,
Howard Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter & Gordon,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
Arcadia,
Skriet,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
The Human League,
Sun City Girls,
Lyres,
Gichy Dan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
The Raincoats,
Danielle Patucci,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Monks,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.