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 Malta and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bob Dylan to the funk 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mad Mike,
The Gladiators,
New York Dolls,
Ten City,
Ornette Coleman,
Brothers Johnson,
The Remains,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Almond,
Boredoms,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Depeche Mode,
The Techniques,
Prince Buster,
Zero Boys,
Josef K,
Ronan,
One Last Wish,
The Star Department,
The Stooges,
8 Eyed Spy,
Susan Cadogan,
Average White Band,
Television Personalities,
Joe Finger,
Urselle,
Eurythmics,
Reagan Youth,
Duran Duran,
Cheater Slicks,
Metal Thangz,
Fatback Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yusef Lateef,
Yellowson,
Junior Murvin,
Slick Rick,
Vladislav Delay,
Leonard Cohen,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Bourne,
X-101,
Hardrive,
Moss Icon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joe Smooth,
Dawn Penn,
the Association,
Todd Terry,
Matthew Halsall,
Maleditus Sound,
David Axelrod,
Radiohead,
Symarip,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Whodini,
Colin Newman,
Scan 7,
Soft Machine,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.