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 Houston.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camberwell Now to the grime 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Pretty Things,
Second Layer,
Joe Smooth,
Cymande,
Suicide,
Derrick May,
Joe Finger,
Nation of Ulysses,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cluster,
Radiohead,
Maurizio,
Reuben Wilson,
Metal Thangz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grey Daturas,
Theoretical Girls,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Red Krayola,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kaleidoscope,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bootsy Collins,
the Swans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Busters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thompson Twins,
Y Pants,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gong,
Ronan,
Robert Görl,
Shoche,
Mary Jane Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Wire,
Model 500,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Pus,
Visage,
John Foxx,
The Moleskins,
Scrapy,
Brick,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Al Stewart,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.