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 Djibouti and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 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 Tubeway Army to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
The Gap Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Hot Snakes,
Toni Rubio,
Pagans,
Rufus Thomas,
Michelle Simonal,
Erykah Badu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boz Scaggs,
Can,
Rites of Spring,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Smooth,
Index,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Gun Club,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Monolake,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deepchord,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Funkadelic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eurythmics,
Sam Rivers,
Harry Pussy,
Scan 7,
Ice-T,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter & Gordon,
The Angels of Light,
Mantronix,
Technova,
Ohio Players,
Boogie Down Productions,
B.T. Express,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Reagan Youth,
Scrapy,
The Durutti Column,
The J.B.'s,
Suburban Knight,
Accadde A,
Stereo Dub,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Thee Headcoats,
Marmalade,
Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.