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 Guatemala and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Suburban Knight to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Moby Grape,
Piero Umiliani,
the Association,
Lakeside,
Danielle Patucci,
The Grass Roots,
The Divine Comedy,
Bush Tetras,
Smog,
Pole,
The Victims,
Peter & Gordon,
Eric Dolphy,
Deadbeat,
The Gladiators,
John Foxx,
Rosa Yemen,
Supertramp,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DNA,
Liliput,
Agitation Free,
Can,
Ultra Naté,
The Moody Blues,
The Fall,
cv313,
The Count Five,
Depeche Mode,
Dave Gahan,
The Standells,
Faraquet,
Alice Coltrane,
Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hardrive,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
PIL,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Bluetip,
Nik Kershaw,
AZ,
Jimmy McGriff,
Accadde A,
Rites of Spring,
Joey Negro,
Amazonics,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Inner City,
Sister Nancy,
Ice-T,
The Gories,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.