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 Chile and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kas Product to the punk 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
FM Einheit,
The Dave Clark Five,
Godley & Creme,
Lebanon Hanover,
Blake Baxter,
Von Mondo,
Henry Cow,
The New Christs,
Bob Dylan,
Graham Central Station,
Los Fastidios,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Section 25,
Charles Mingus,
The Dead C,
Nirvana,
Connie Case,
Reuben Wilson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
ABBA,
The Electric Prunes,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Star Department,
Aswad,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Bananas,
Wings,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gong,
Simply Red,
Eric Dolphy,
Tomorrow,
Susan Cadogan,
Second Layer,
the Human League,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Loose Ends,
The Barracudas,
Monolake,
Ludus,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Stooges,
One Last Wish,
The Trojans,
Gang of Four,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
T.S.O.L.,
The Velvet Underground,
Japan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alison Limerick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monks,
Aural Exciters,
Camouflage,
CMW,
Erasure,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.