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 Nepal and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 Joe Smooth to the disco 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Halsall,
John Holt,
Kayak,
the Soft Cell,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Barracudas,
Whodini,
Althea and Donna,
Bang On A Can,
Byron Stingily,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cymande,
Urselle,
Pet Shop Boys,
Donny Hathaway,
Pere Ubu,
Gang of Four,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Cale,
Blancmange,
Index,
Pantaleimon,
The Neon Judgement,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Doors,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scrapy,
Suicide,
Deepchord,
Sun City Girls,
New York Dolls,
The Tremeloes,
Derrick Morgan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Wyatt,
Quadrant,
Joy Division,
K-Klass,
The Velvet Underground,
Andrew Hill,
Fear,
The Monochrome Set,
Bob Dylan,
Michelle Simonal,
One Last Wish,
Fatback Band,
Morten Harket,
Radiohead,
Nick Fraelich,
B.T. Express,
Harmonia,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Bobby Sherman,
The Divine Comedy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.