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 Chad and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dennis Brown to the rock 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Walker Brothers,
Mars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Kaleidoscope,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Maleditus Sound,
Liliput,
Infiniti,
Pantytec,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Sound,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young,
LL Cool J,
The Kinks,
Carl Craig,
Faust,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Charles Mingus,
Michelle Simonal,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sister Nancy,
Pole,
Zapp,
Nico,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quando Quango,
CMW,
The Count Five,
Mo-Dettes,
Interpol,
U.S. Maple,
The Tremeloes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Cell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Raincoats,
Y Pants,
Joe Finger,
Scientists,
The Offenders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Moon,
X-102,
The Slackers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Guru Guru,
Bauhaus,
R.M.O.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fear,
Clear Light,
Chrome,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.