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 Belize and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Grey Daturas to the punk 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty 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 punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Music Machine,
X-102,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Erykah Badu,
Arcadia,
Basic Channel,
John Lydon,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MC5,
Oblivians,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül II,
Severed Heads,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pole,
Eric Dolphy,
Ornette Coleman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Outsiders,
The Walker Brothers,
Kas Product,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Byron Stingily,
Wally Richardson,
Charles Mingus,
The Seeds,
Slick Rick,
Kayak,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jacques Brel,
One Last Wish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Grass Roots,
The Fortunes,
The Pop Group,
the Slits,
Shoche,
H. Thieme,
The Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kenny Larkin,
Bill Near,
Lightning Bolt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soul II Soul,
Bang On A Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Busters,
Television,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.