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 Italy and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 mellotron 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 Buzzcocks to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Roger Hodgson,
Lower 48,
The Human League,
Hardrive,
Brothers Johnson,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mummies,
The Cowsills,
Derrick Morgan,
Nas,
Stetsasonic,
World's Most,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The New Christs,
Tom Boy,
Junior Murvin,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nik Kershaw,
Oblivians,
E-Dancer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The J.B.'s,
Unwound,
Amon Düül II,
Neil Young,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dark Day,
The Durutti Column,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hashim,
Newcleus,
Silicon Teens,
The Doors,
Darondo,
X-101,
Tropical Tobacco,
Al Stewart,
the Germs,
The Pop Group,
Erykah Badu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Porter Ricks,
LL Cool J,
Motorama,
Mission of Burma,
The Five Americans,
Gang of Four,
Urselle,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
Minnie Riperton,
The Slits,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.