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 Denmark and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Gap Band to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon 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?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Adolescents,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moebius,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cluster,
World's Most,
Kurtis Blow,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Standells,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Excepter,
Q65,
Kenny Larkin,
Barry Ungar,
Pylon,
Spandau Ballet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
Visage,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Mummies,
The Motions,
Yellowson,
In Retrospect,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Christie,
The Zeros,
Franke,
Panda Bear,
Flamin' Groovies,
Infiniti,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Cale,
Television Personalities,
Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Al Stewart,
The Selecter,
Gastr Del Sol,
New York Dolls,
Fear,
The Names,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
Intrusion,
Davy DMX,
Youth Brigade,
Public Enemy,
Crooked Eye,
Anakelly,
The Angels of Light,
Sam Rivers,
Schoolly D,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.