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 Thailand and from Portland.
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 Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
The Velvet Underground,
Circle Jerks,
Urselle,
Eric Copeland,
Archie Shepp,
The Stooges,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sonic Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The American Breed,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Starr,
Roger Hodgson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Technova,
The Kinks,
The Selecter,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Funkadelic,
Silicon Teens,
The Monks,
MDC,
The Associates,
Fad Gadget,
Wally Richardson,
Dennis Brown,
Skriet,
Suicide,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
Maurizio,
The Doors,
Hardrive,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed,
Barbara Tucker,
Inner City,
Con Funk Shun,
Moby Grape,
Darondo,
Ornette Coleman,
Icehouse,
Joey Negro,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Remains,
The Cure,
The Gun Club,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
Cybotron,
Theoretical Girls,
E-Dancer,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.