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 Monaco and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Loose Ends to the disco 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
The Human League,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fat Boys,
Sight & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Kerri Chandler,
D'Angelo,
Au Pairs,
Danielle Patucci,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Little Man,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sex Pistols,
E-Dancer,
Crash Course in Science,
Sixth Finger,
Terrestrial Tones,
Vladislav Delay,
Soulsonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Lalann,
Spoonie Gee,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dave Gahan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cure,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed,
The Kinks,
Carl Craig,
Faust,
The Buckinghams,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
Chris & Cosey,
Byron Stingily,
Eli Mardock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Moody Blues,
One Last Wish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Urselle,
Lebanon Hanover,
Funky Four + One,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Remains,
Tres Demented,
Pole,
Fugazi,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Glenn Branca,
Girls At Our Best!,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amazonics,
a-ha,
Swans,
Fluxion,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.