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 Belgium and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls 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?
Junior Murvin,
Organ,
Country Joe & The Fish,
H. Thieme,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eli Mardock,
Surgeon,
Sight & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
Alison Limerick,
Arthur Verocai,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Enemy,
Ten City,
Todd Terry,
Desert Stars,
Tim Buckley,
The Music Machine,
Scrapy,
Mr. Review,
Neil Young,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Electric Prunes,
Arcadia,
The Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
Newcleus,
Echospace,
Skriet,
Andrew Hill,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New York Dolls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tom Boy,
Duran Duran,
Eve St. Jones,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Litter,
The Dead C,
The Invisible,
Q65,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
Basic Channel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
New Age Steppers,
Groovy Waters,
Sonic Youth,
Archie Shepp,
The Dirtbombs,
Reuben Wilson,
LL Cool J,
D'Angelo,
The Cowsills,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jimmy McGriff,
Das Ding,
Shoche,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.