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 Austria and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Y Pants to the rap 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Patti Smith,
Fatback Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Zero Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
The Evens,
The Knickerbockers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Index,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Thompson Twins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
CMW,
D'Angelo,
the Association,
Alison Limerick,
Marvin Gaye,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sound Behaviour,
Arab on Radar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Walker Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Gong,
Swell Maps,
Minnie Riperton,
Blancmange,
Lakeside,
Judy Mowatt,
Sonic Youth,
The Misunderstood,
Suburban Knight,
Tubeway Army,
The Dead C,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Foxx,
Isaac Hayes,
Rapeman,
Interpol,
Lower 48,
Pere Ubu,
Goldenarms,
The Residents,
Kayak,
Eve St. Jones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roxette,
Sun Ra,
Scott Walker,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sun City Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nik Kershaw,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.