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 Korea South and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Slackers to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Todd Rundgren,
New Age Steppers,
The Blackbyrds,
Audionom,
Franke,
Man Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Archie Shepp,
Nick Fraelich,
Hashim,
Ronnie Foster,
Q65,
Bad Manners,
Sandy B,
ABBA,
Bobby Womack,
Funkadelic,
Don Cherry,
Radiohead,
Rhythm & Sound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Deepchord,
Soul II Soul,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Sister Nancy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soft Machine,
Sound Behaviour,
Scrapy,
Nas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Byron Stingily,
The Tremeloes,
Freddie Wadling,
Pussy Galore,
June of 44,
The Dirtbombs,
Fad Gadget,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marine Girls,
Fatback Band,
Scratch Acid,
Fela Kuti,
Barry Ungar,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Popol Vuh,
Intrusion,
Thee Headcoats,
The New Christs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magazine,
Amon Düül II,
Simply Red,
The Mojo Men,
The Monks,
Henry Cow,
Ralphi Rosario,
Colin Newman,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tim Buckley,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.