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 Nepal and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Infiniti to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Young Marble Giants,
The Human League,
Moby Grape,
Roxette,
The Durutti Column,
The Blackbyrds,
Scott Walker,
Electric Prunes,
Supertramp,
Gerry Rafferty,
Althea and Donna,
The Walker Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Davy DMX,
Lucky Dragons,
Cybotron,
Radiohead,
Don Cherry,
Ohio Players,
One Last Wish,
Chris Corsano,
Aswad,
Spoonie Gee,
Zapp,
Danielle Patucci,
Mars,
Marine Girls,
Darondo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Young Rascals,
Chris & Cosey,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeru the Damaja,
Infiniti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Josef K,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pylon,
Section 25,
Ice-T,
Mary Jane Girls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ludus,
Sparks,
Reagan Youth,
The Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Connie Case,
Thee Headcoats,
Alison Limerick,
Spandau Ballet,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.