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 Brunei and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ 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 Pole to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Ohio Players,
Cymande,
Robert Hood,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flipper,
Albert Ayler,
Gichy Dan,
MC5,
Sixth Finger,
Accadde A,
Toni Rubio,
The Alarm Clocks,
cv313,
Drive Like Jehu,
Spoonie Gee,
Tubeway Army,
Roy Ayers,
the Soft Cell,
Second Layer,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
John Holt,
Graham Central Station,
The Move,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
Althea and Donna,
Ken Boothe,
Ronan,
Colin Newman,
The Evens,
The Searchers,
Quantec,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Au Pairs,
John Cale,
Popol Vuh,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Enemy,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Selecter,
Soft Machine,
Das Ding,
Desert Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Tropical Tobacco,
The American Breed,
Reuben Wilson,
The Smiths,
The Gun Club,
China Crisis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mark Hollis,
Symarip,
Kerrie Biddell,
These Immortal Souls,
New Order,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.