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 Afghanistan and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Thompson Twins to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Busters. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Pylon,
John Coltrane,
The Fugs,
Television Personalities,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Toasters,
The Gap Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Prunes,
Subhumans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dawn Penn,
The Beau Brummels,
Albert Ayler,
Drexciya,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ponytail,
The Mummies,
K-Klass,
Deepchord,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Star Department,
The Modern Lovers,
Sandy B,
Suicide,
The Wake,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Walker Brothers,
10cc,
Neil Young,
Chrome,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wings,
Bauhaus,
Accadde A,
Neu!,
Sugar Minott,
Eddi Front,
Crispian St. Peters,
Erasure,
Model 500,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultravox,
Flash Fearless,
The Happenings,
Gerry Rafferty,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Offenders,
Colin Newman,
the Human League,
Inner City,
Fat Boys,
Frankie Knuckles,
Flipper,
The Moleskins,
Brand Nubian,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.