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 Macedonia and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Real Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
Ludus,
Soulsonic Force,
Tres Demented,
Girls At Our Best!,
Charles Mingus,
Steve Hackett,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Trojans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Arab on Radar,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camouflage,
Jerry's Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Residents,
Swell Maps,
This Heat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Roger Hodgson,
Simply Red,
John Holt,
Toni Rubio,
Franke,
Nico,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Trumans Water,
Fatback Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Henry Cow,
The Cowsills,
The Martian,
The J.B.'s,
Vladislav Delay,
the Swans,
Crooked Eye,
DJ Style,
The Offenders,
Delta 5,
Mark Hollis,
Supertramp,
The Selecter,
DNA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wolf Eyes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Magazine,
Maurizio,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Raincoats,
The New Christs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Altered Images,
Alton Ellis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Order,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.