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 Kazakhstan and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Sun Ra,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marc Almond,
John Coltrane,
Make Up,
The Doors,
Girls At Our Best!,
UT,
Eve St. Jones,
Intrusion,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Toni Rubio,
Goldenarms,
Ponytail,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-101,
Grauzone,
Basic Channel,
Warsaw,
The Skatalites,
The Vogues,
LL Cool J,
Moss Icon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Zero Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lyres,
Thee Headcoats,
Pylon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Slave,
Skarface,
Circle Jerks,
Unrelated Segments,
Joensuu 1685,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Outsiders,
the Fania All-Stars,
Oneida,
Los Fastidios,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Hood,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Interpol,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Martian,
R.M.O.,
World's Most,
Morten Harket,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Move,
Quantec,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.