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 Cape Verde and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Bar-Kays,
Neil Young,
Althea and Donna,
Judy Mowatt,
10cc,
E-Dancer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Severed Heads,
Adolescents,
The Litter,
Anakelly,
Quadrant,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skriet,
Rapeman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Infiniti,
Motorama,
Sight & Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Fad Gadget,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker,
Chris Corsano,
The Fuzztones,
Livin' Joy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Moebius,
Gichy Dan,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Offenders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brick,
Saccharine Trust,
the Normal,
Jacob Miller,
Johnny Clarke,
Ossler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camberwell Now,
Boredoms,
The Index,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Junior Murvin,
China Crisis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Godley & Creme,
Marvin Gaye,
Television,
Mark Hollis,
the Sonics,
Maleditus Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Zapp,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.