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 Thailand and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Funky Four + One to the jazz 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eden Ahbez,
Zapp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Excepter,
Gabor Szabo,
Wally Richardson,
The Buckinghams,
The Cramps,
Gang of Four,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Darondo,
The Dirtbombs,
Lower 48,
Tubeway Army,
Saccharine Trust,
Soulsonic Force,
Kas Product,
Infiniti,
Radio Birdman,
The Misunderstood,
Hardrive,
the Swans,
New York Dolls,
ABBA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Colin Newman,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultravox,
Magma,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Nils Olav,
Soul II Soul,
the Association,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
The Toasters,
Joe Finger,
Blancmange,
Lakeside,
Soft Machine,
Minutemen,
Barbara Tucker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barrington Levy,
Massinfluence,
Howard Jones,
Slick Rick,
The Kinks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Swans,
Maurizio,
Maleditus Sound,
Essential Logic,
K-Klass,
Niagra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Monochrome Set,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.