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 Afghanistan and from Mumbai.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fat Boys to the rock 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eve St. Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
LL Cool J,
Youth Brigade,
Alton Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Schoolly D,
Patti Smith,
John Foxx,
Moss Icon,
Cybotron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Sheep,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Bar-Kays,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
The Raincoats,
The Neon Judgement,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scion,
EPMD,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Halsall,
Can,
the Germs,
Joensuu 1685,
Bill Near,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fugazi,
Vainqueur,
Siglo XX,
Lightning Bolt,
Quando Quango,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bill Wells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Bowie,
Massinfluence,
The Fortunes,
The Modern Lovers,
Slave,
Tears for Fears,
The Barracudas,
Andrew Hill,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Henry Cow,
Anakelly,
Index,
Ronnie Foster,
These Immortal Souls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Maleditus Sound,
Harmonia,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.