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 Libya and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
June Days,
The Cowsills,
Spandau Ballet,
Rapeman,
Althea and Donna,
Mad Mike,
Subhumans,
Minny Pops,
Harry Pussy,
Intrusion,
The Searchers,
Monks,
Ice-T,
Marine Girls,
Max Romeo,
Tubeway Army,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roxy Music,
The Skatalites,
The Count Five,
John Coltrane,
The Gories,
10cc,
Bluetip,
Whodini,
Agitation Free,
Rakim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Kinks,
The Residents,
Livin' Joy,
Scientists,
Eli Mardock,
Reagan Youth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gong,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Outsiders,
Inner City,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang of Four,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ossler,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Lydon,
Josef K,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ponytail,
Davy DMX,
Joe Finger,
Can,
E-Dancer,
Todd Rundgren,
Visage,
Saccharine Trust,
Warsaw,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.