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 Solomon Islands and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord 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 JFA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
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,
The Mummies,
Television Personalities,
Crime,
John Foxx,
Kerrie Biddell,
Alphaville,
Shoche,
Bob Dylan,
Roxette,
John Lydon,
Niagra,
The Saints,
Freddie Wadling,
Fear,
Livin' Joy,
Tim Buckley,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mark Hollis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Can,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jandek,
Crooked Eye,
Pierre Henry,
The Zeros,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
L. Decosne,
Minny Pops,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sam Rivers,
Sugar Minott,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Pus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
New York Dolls,
Bush Tetras,
In Retrospect,
Sarah Menescal,
Ossler,
Al Stewart,
Radiohead,
Sixth Finger,
Unwound,
The Cramps,
Suburban Knight,
Model 500,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bauhaus,
UT,
Marmalade,
Spoonie Gee,
Newcleus,
Whodini,
Joy Division,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.