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 Congo and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Barbara Tucker to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case 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?
Grey Daturas,
The Pop Group,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tubeway Army,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scan 7,
Camouflage,
John Cale,
Jeff Mills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Shuggie Otis,
Easy Going,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moebius,
Average White Band,
Tres Demented,
Leonard Cohen,
Sixth Finger,
Althea and Donna,
Black Sheep,
Stockholm Monsters,
Danielle Patucci,
Barrington Levy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
China Crisis,
Jeff Lynne,
Quando Quango,
Ultravox,
Pole,
Wings,
Gong,
Blossom Toes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Prunes,
Second Layer,
Duran Duran,
The Wake,
Faraquet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Freddie Wadling,
Altered Images,
Delon & Dalcan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crooked Eye,
X-Ray Spex,
Country Teasers,
Vainqueur,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Index,
Crash Course in Science,
The Red Krayola,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cluster,
Derrick May,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.