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 Korea South and from Delhi.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Loose Ends to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Electric Prunes,
Jawbox,
Man Parrish,
In Retrospect,
Excepter,
The Evens,
Tim Buckley,
Roxy Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Moon,
Bush Tetras,
Freddie Wadling,
Camouflage,
Clear Light,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Symarip,
The Gladiators,
Robert Hood,
Toni Rubio,
Cymande,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harmonia,
R.M.O.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
the Slits,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soulsonic Force,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Smooth,
The Count Five,
Skarface,
Theoretical Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Easy Going,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun City Girls,
Altered Images,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gun Club,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Talk Talk,
Bronski Beat,
Cheater Slicks,
Shuggie Otis,
The Stooges,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ludus,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gories,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.