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 Congo and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Boogie Down Productions to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Schoolly D,
Aswad,
The Last Poets,
Radio Birdman,
Amon Düül,
Suicide,
Don Cherry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Danielle Patucci,
Howard Jones,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Gap Band,
Sixth Finger,
Toni Rubio,
Sugar Minott,
Fatback Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Visage,
Bill Wells,
Juan Atkins,
Peter and Kerry,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aaron Thompson,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radiohead,
The Cramps,
The Neon Judgement,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
The Grass Roots,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Newcleus,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott Heron,
Wally Richardson,
Ludus,
Agent Orange,
Tubeway Army,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
Soul II Soul,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gong,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Harmonia,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Bourne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grey Daturas,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rosa Yemen,
Pulsallama,
JFA,
The Modern Lovers,
Ponytail,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.