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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Holger Czukay 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pulsallama,
Joensuu 1685,
Boz Scaggs,
Eurythmics,
The Vogues,
Roy Ayers,
the Swans,
ABBA,
Can,
Max Romeo,
Joyce Sims,
Marine Girls,
Funkadelic,
Nik Kershaw,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter & Gordon,
Inner City,
Black Pus,
Juan Atkins,
Prince Buster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash,
Idris Muhammad,
Toni Rubio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Supertramp,
Von Mondo,
The Slackers,
Thompson Twins,
Interpol,
the Normal,
Lyres,
Au Pairs,
Minny Pops,
Jawbox,
the Bar-Kays,
the Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Standells,
Animal Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
UT,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marc Almond,
Fela Kuti,
Accadde A,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gang Starr,
Porter Ricks,
Ossler,
Crime,
Technova,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.