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 Somalia and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Q65 to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
The Human League,
Bronski Beat,
The Beau Brummels,
Rufus Thomas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fire Engines,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Y Pants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
The Zeros,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Order,
Talk Talk,
Niagra,
Leonard Cohen,
Albert Ayler,
Alphaville,
The Young Rascals,
The Move,
Joe Smooth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Monochrome Set,
Ohio Players,
Darondo,
June Days,
Yazoo,
the Slits,
Basic Channel,
The Golliwogs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Divine Comedy,
Flipper,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pierre Henry,
Aaron Thompson,
Mars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DNA,
Jacques Brel,
Fela Kuti,
Flash Fearless,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Average White Band,
Barry Ungar,
Black Sheep,
Fugazi,
Freddie Wadling,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cure,
Brothers Johnson,
Panda Bear,
This Heat,
Todd Rundgren,
China Crisis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.