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 Palau and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord 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 Ralphi Rosario 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Vogues,
Alice Coltrane,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soulsonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
June of 44,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dawn Penn,
Bad Manners,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Adolescents,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Josef K,
Davy DMX,
Sun City Girls,
Mission of Burma,
the Association,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scion,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moss Icon,
Spoonie Gee,
Agent Orange,
Faust,
Crime,
Schoolly D,
Pantaleimon,
The Human League,
The Raincoats,
Roger Hodgson,
Rekid,
Piero Umiliani,
Lungfish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DJ Style,
Bauhaus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Green,
Y Pants,
JFA,
Popol Vuh,
Oblivians,
Livin' Joy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Sherman,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yazoo,
Don Cherry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fear,
Black Bananas,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.