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 Azerbaijan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Surgeon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Los Fastidios,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crash Course in Science,
The Count Five,
the Soft Cell,
David McCallum,
Eurythmics,
Depeche Mode,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül II,
The Smiths,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nils Olav,
Swell Maps,
Radiopuhelimet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Max Romeo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Andrew Hill,
Bill Near,
Amon Düül,
Tres Demented,
Banda Bassotti,
Derrick May,
Deadbeat,
The Motions,
The Gories,
Visage,
Rakim,
Connie Case,
John Holt,
Parry Music,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Ultravox,
The Offenders,
New York Dolls,
H. Thieme,
The Barracudas,
Main Source,
Tom Boy,
Amazonics,
The Moody Blues,
Nico,
Derrick Morgan,
Jandek,
Procol Harum,
The Seeds,
Chrome,
Livin' Joy,
Funkadelic,
Dark Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
B.T. Express,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.