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 Mauritius and from Halifax.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Skaos to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders 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?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Reuben Wilson,
Roger Hodgson,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultravox,
Joensuu 1685,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Massinfluence,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eurythmics,
Sällskapet,
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
Arcadia,
Pere Ubu,
Skarface,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wings,
Monolake,
Rotary Connection,
New Order,
Marine Girls,
Flipper,
Colin Newman,
Thompson Twins,
Ultra Naté,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ponytail,
Silicon Teens,
Sixth Finger,
Interpol,
One Last Wish,
Scion,
Letta Mbulu,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kenny Larkin,
Urselle,
Visage,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Human League,
Erasure,
Blancmange,
Heaven 17,
Joe Finger,
Youth Brigade,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Swans,
The Angels of Light,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lalann,
Don Cherry,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Modern Lovers,
The Last Poets,
Electric Prunes,
Donny Hathaway,
Scratch Acid,
Howard Jones,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.