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 Albania and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 a-ha to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Flipper,
Arcadia,
Talk Talk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lindisfarne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jawbox,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grauzone,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tubeway Army,
Cecil Taylor,
the Germs,
Pussy Galore,
Clear Light,
Peter & Gordon,
Anthony Braxton,
Television,
Pierre Henry,
Joensuu 1685,
The Zeros,
Arthur Verocai,
Simply Red,
Saccharine Trust,
The Stooges,
Sex Pistols,
Trumans Water,
Jandek,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun City Girls,
Black Moon,
Steve Hackett,
New Order,
Whodini,
Amazonics,
Vladislav Delay,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Bourne,
Faraquet,
New York Dolls,
Siglo XX,
The Associates,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gong,
John Lydon,
Byron Stingily,
Adolescents,
Minny Pops,
Visage,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Glenn Branca,
The Young Rascals,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blancmange,
Soul II Soul,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.