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 Burundi and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Supertramp to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Quando Quango,
The Moleskins,
Yaz,
Sarah Menescal,
Minnie Riperton,
The Mojo Men,
Minny Pops,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
The Searchers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crooked Eye,
Ronan,
Half Japanese,
The Monochrome Set,
Michelle Simonal,
Tres Demented,
The Raincoats,
Flash Fearless,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Anthony Braxton,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Young Rascals,
the Slits,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Flag,
Nik Kershaw,
Q65,
Wolf Eyes,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smoke,
Warsaw,
Rekid,
EPMD,
Whodini,
The Dead C,
Royal Trux,
Iggy Pop,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
E-Dancer,
Marmalade,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Sneak,
Sixth Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Sonics,
John Coltrane,
New Age Steppers,
The Remains,
Country Teasers,
Nils Olav,
KRS-One,
The Pop Group,
Funkadelic,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.