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 Kazakhstan and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 Outsiders to the rap 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Flash Fearless,
The Blackbyrds,
Zero Boys,
Ultimate Spinach,
Unrelated Segments,
Gerry Rafferty,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Machine,
Fat Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Music Machine,
Trumans Water,
The Doobie Brothers,
Subhumans,
Mark Hollis,
Hoover,
Johnny Osbourne,
kango's stein massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marshall Jefferson,
Desert Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crime,
Toni Rubio,
Pere Ubu,
Rufus Thomas,
Bad Manners,
OOIOO,
Make Up,
Tommy Roe,
Fear,
Simply Red,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Motorama,
Eric Copeland,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Franke,
Brick,
Nik Kershaw,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Byrd,
K-Klass,
T. Rex,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Leaves,
Stetsasonic,
Talk Talk,
FM Einheit,
H. Thieme,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hot Snakes,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash,
Massinfluence,
Tres Demented,
Yazoo,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
The Busters,
Section 25,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.