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 Macedonia and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Zero Boys to the grunge 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Young Rascals,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Index,
The Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slave,
Thompson Twins,
Althea and Donna,
Minnie Riperton,
John Holt,
Ronnie Foster,
Rufus Thomas,
Pantaleimon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
ABC,
The Toasters,
Johnny Clarke,
Faraquet,
a-ha,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warren Ellis,
Funky Four + One,
Yaz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Janne Schatter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Livin' Joy,
Sun Ra,
James White and The Blacks,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Steve Hackett,
Y Pants,
The Mojo Men,
Motorama,
Goldenarms,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barrington Levy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gichy Dan,
Cameo,
The Golliwogs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Public Image Ltd.,
Accadde A,
Bauhaus,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fire Engines,
The Associates,
Joyce Sims,
Bill Near,
The Black Dice,
The Busters,
Tom Boy,
Negative Approach,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.