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 Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
The Victims,
Procol Harum,
Lyres,
New York Dolls,
Amon Düül,
Alphaville,
Joyce Sims,
Joy Division,
Skarface,
James White and The Blacks,
La Düsseldorf,
The New Christs,
Lucky Dragons,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cluster,
Dual Sessions,
Sister Nancy,
Cymande,
Groovy Waters,
Animal Collective,
Junior Murvin,
Kurtis Blow,
Pole,
These Immortal Souls,
The Techniques,
The Fall,
Archie Shepp,
Barry Ungar,
Shoche,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Sonics,
Gong,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gladiators,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sound Behaviour,
The Invisible,
Rapeman,
Pantytec,
The Slits,
OOIOO,
Barrington Levy,
Mission of Burma,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Starr,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Detroit Cobras,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Happenings,
The Music Machine,
Grauzone,
John Holt,
Aswad,
China Crisis,
Ludus,
Boz Scaggs,
Los Fastidios,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.