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 Slovenia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe 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 Steve Hackett to the techno 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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Au Pairs,
Average White Band,
Ponytail,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Bourne,
Cheater Slicks,
The Walker Brothers,
Fear,
The Neon Judgement,
Television Personalities,
Ituana,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crime,
Tomorrow,
Deadbeat,
the Sonics,
Rekid,
Lou Reed,
Alison Limerick,
MC5,
Godley & Creme,
Wasted Youth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Inner City,
The Standells,
Tommy Roe,
Rakim,
Ornette Coleman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Audionom,
Donny Hathaway,
Vainqueur,
Pussy Galore,
Fad Gadget,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
Grauzone,
Monks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Kenny Larkin,
Nation of Ulysses,
Q and Not U,
Joy Division,
Janne Schatter,
Swell Maps,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grey Daturas,
Mars,
L. Decosne,
Marine Girls,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.