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 France and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Robert Hood to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Brass Construction,
Groovy Waters,
John Lydon,
DJ Sneak,
Malaria!,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Pop Group,
Lou Christie,
Bill Near,
the Human League,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Archie Shepp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lakeside,
Warsaw,
Dawn Penn,
Roy Ayers,
Althea and Donna,
Fad Gadget,
Adolescents,
Marc Almond,
China Crisis,
The Offenders,
Severed Heads,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
A Certain Ratio,
Alphaville,
MDC,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young,
PIL,
Isaac Hayes,
Donald Byrd,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arthur Verocai,
One Last Wish,
The American Breed,
Matthew Halsall,
These Immortal Souls,
Scan 7,
Derrick Morgan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Donny Hathaway,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultra Naté,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ossler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Barrington Levy,
Quando Quango,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unwound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.