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 Ghana and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Roger Hodgson to the techno 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barrington Levy,
Matthew Bourne,
Ohio Players,
Eric Dolphy,
Altered Images,
Amon Düül,
Rotary Connection,
Angry Samoans,
Public Enemy,
Tears for Fears,
Half Japanese,
The Young Rascals,
Harpers Bizarre,
EPMD,
Colin Newman,
Junior Murvin,
Porter Ricks,
Parry Music,
This Heat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Sherman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
cv313,
Iggy Pop,
the Germs,
The Modern Lovers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brothers Johnson,
The Seeds,
The Music Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Scientists,
Symarip,
Eric B and Rakim,
Suicide,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Cure,
Magma,
Mark Hollis,
Sugar Minott,
Leonard Cohen,
Robert Hood,
Sarah Menescal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
LL Cool J,
Surgeon,
10cc,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.