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 Kenya and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the dance 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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fluxion,
Freddie Wadling,
Fat Boys,
Letta Mbulu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
10cc,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fall,
David Axelrod,
The Selecter,
Procol Harum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Theoretical Girls,
Metal Thangz,
Whodini,
The Motions,
Harmonia,
Byron Stingily,
Fatback Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Electric Prunes,
Au Pairs,
Youth Brigade,
The Happenings,
The Move,
The Monochrome Set,
The Divine Comedy,
Grey Daturas,
The Techniques,
Slick Rick,
Scientists,
John Coltrane,
La Düsseldorf,
Khruangbin,
Robert Hood,
The Golliwogs,
Bob Dylan,
Toni Rubio,
The American Breed,
Ludus,
Mo-Dettes,
Tears for Fears,
Lower 48,
Gichy Dan,
Ultra Naté,
Rekid,
The Trojans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Blancmange,
Schoolly D,
MC5,
Smog,
Altered Images,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David McCallum,
The Names,
Nirvana,
Television Personalities,
One Last Wish,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.