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 Cyprus and from Tehran.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Busters to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
K-Klass,
Moebius,
Marine Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Von Mondo,
Chris Corsano,
The Evens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joe Finger,
Gong,
Kenny Larkin,
Nik Kershaw,
Infiniti,
Massinfluence,
Vladislav Delay,
The Count Five,
Blossom Toes,
Ice-T,
The Pop Group,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Normal,
Joy Division,
Dual Sessions,
Sparks,
Prince Buster,
The Searchers,
Suicide,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Residents,
The Buckinghams,
Bluetip,
Can,
Desert Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
David McCallum,
Dawn Penn,
Parry Music,
The Modern Lovers,
Model 500,
Tropical Tobacco,
FM Einheit,
Easy Going,
cv313,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Gories,
Niagra,
Groovy Waters,
Minor Threat,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
10cc,
Lucky Dragons,
Steve Hackett,
LL Cool J,
Skriet,
Eric Copeland,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Slick Rick,
Soul II Soul,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.