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 Austria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 OOIOO to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Brass Construction,
Tomorrow,
10cc,
The Sonics,
Yazoo,
Albert Ayler,
48th St. Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Camouflage,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Theoretical Girls,
Deadbeat,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marvin Gaye,
Pagans,
Quantec,
The Fall,
Dave Gahan,
The Raincoats,
Robert Hood,
Johnny Osbourne,
T.S.O.L.,
The Stooges,
Junior Murvin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Skarface,
Outsiders,
UT,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fatback Band,
Roy Ayers,
Banda Bassotti,
Make Up,
Mantronix,
Ralphi Rosario,
Terry Callier,
Yusef Lateef,
The Young Rascals,
Desert Stars,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Girls At Our Best!,
Swell Maps,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rosa Yemen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool Moe Dee,
World's Most,
Isaac Hayes,
Marine Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Dennis Brown,
Gang of Four,
Judy Mowatt,
Mandrill,
Motorama,
Cal Tjader,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.