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 Bahamas and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
The Slackers,
Amazonics,
Joyce Sims,
The Cowsills,
The Human League,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Groovy Waters,
Maurizio,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Royal Trux,
Black Flag,
Eddi Front,
Amon Düül II,
Delta 5,
Wire,
R.M.O.,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Excepter,
Sight & Sound,
Agitation Free,
Chris & Cosey,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deadbeat,
Todd Rundgren,
PIL,
Brick,
Terry Callier,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Chris Corsano,
Pylon,
The Stooges,
The Durutti Column,
Mark Hollis,
Monks,
Skarface,
Soul II Soul,
Lower 48,
The J.B.'s,
Hashim,
Bluetip,
Eli Mardock,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Robert Görl,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Urselle,
Magazine,
Iggy Pop,
The Busters,
Rakim,
Zapp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Knickerbockers,
Nils Olav,
Rotary Connection,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Grass Roots,
David McCallum,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.