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 Lagos.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 John Foxx to the grime 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boz Scaggs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Altered Images,
Alton Ellis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Graham Central Station,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Robert Hood,
Nico,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pere Ubu,
Joe Smooth,
Pussy Galore,
The Monochrome Set,
Crash Course in Science,
Ronnie Foster,
Television Personalities,
Country Teasers,
These Immortal Souls,
Kenny Larkin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alphaville,
Marmalade,
Tears for Fears,
Delta 5,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DNA,
EPMD,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skaos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Alison Limerick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Young Marble Giants,
T. Rex,
Theoretical Girls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
OOIOO,
The American Breed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Velvet Underground,
Traffic Nightmare,
kango's stein massive,
Danielle Patucci,
Gong,
Sun City Girls,
The Slackers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cluster,
Warren Ellis,
Amon Düül,
One Last Wish,
Rufus Thomas,
UT,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.