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 Bahrain and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dave Clark Five to the crunk 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Howard Jones,
Godley & Creme,
Schoolly D,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Sparks,
The Seeds,
Nico,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust,
Chrome,
Colin Newman,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Arcadia,
FM Einheit,
Visage,
John Lydon,
The Knickerbockers,
MDC,
Wire,
The Mummies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bootsy Collins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
China Crisis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Whodini,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Quantec,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dennis Brown,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Cale,
Black Sheep,
The Busters,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Erasure,
Procol Harum,
MC5,
Delta 5,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pussy Galore,
Shoche,
Hashim,
John Holt,
Adolescents,
Public Enemy,
Moss Icon,
Skarface,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Warren Ellis,
David Bowie,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.