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 Bahamas and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 Youth Brigade to the rock 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
the Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bronski Beat,
Dawn Penn,
Rapeman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joyce Sims,
Marmalade,
The Fire Engines,
Main Source,
Pulsallama,
Moebius,
Subhumans,
UT,
Motorama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fela Kuti,
Radio Birdman,
Symarip,
New Age Steppers,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
AZ,
Erasure,
cv313,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kas Product,
A Certain Ratio,
Saccharine Trust,
Duran Duran,
The Raincoats,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donny Hathaway,
Aural Exciters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Absolute Body Control,
Anakelly,
Nik Kershaw,
Unwound,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hot Snakes,
Lyres,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
New Order,
Pagans,
10cc,
Talk Talk,
Kevin Saunderson,
Section 25,
Man Parrish,
The Residents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Magma,
the Germs,
The Moody Blues,
Animal Collective,
Jandek,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.