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 Switzerland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the punk 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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?
Quantec,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Can,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David McCallum,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Wyatt,
Howard Jones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Organ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Symarip,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris & Cosey,
Cameo,
John Holt,
Scott Walker,
Eli Mardock,
Arcadia,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
The Smoke,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bill Wells,
Nico,
Franke,
Clear Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pulsallama,
Kevin Saunderson,
Section 25,
Sugar Minott,
Crooked Eye,
Boz Scaggs,
Sparks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brand Nubian,
D'Angelo,
Blancmange,
Subhumans,
Ken Boothe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Visage,
Colin Newman,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Patti Smith,
B.T. Express,
FM Einheit,
Terry Callier,
The Gap Band,
Hardrive,
Hot Snakes,
Q65,
Babytalk,
Ultravox,
Bobby Sherman,
Shoche,
Davy DMX,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.