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 Lebanon and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 John Foxx to the jazz 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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dark Day,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Howard Jones,
Janne Schatter,
The Busters,
Fatback Band,
The Moleskins,
Roxette,
The United States of America,
The Toasters,
The Smiths,
The Associates,
JFA,
Eddi Front,
the Soft Cell,
Gabor Szabo,
Hashim,
Ronan,
Symarip,
Alphaville,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Rundgren,
Nico,
Young Marble Giants,
Ten City,
The Fugs,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Holt,
The Raincoats,
Siglo XX,
Quantec,
Josef K,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Divine Comedy,
June of 44,
The Fire Engines,
The Star Department,
Blossom Toes,
Pussy Galore,
Jandek,
June Days,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Knickerbockers,
Ohio Players,
Interpol,
Swell Maps,
The Mummies,
X-Ray Spex,
Brass Construction,
Arab on Radar,
Boz Scaggs,
the Normal,
Dave Gahan,
Glenn Branca,
Sarah Menescal,
T.S.O.L.,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxy Music,
The Misunderstood,
Maurizio,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.