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 Kyrgyzstan and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Godley & Creme to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nirvana,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Young Marble Giants,
Derrick Morgan,
Robert Görl,
Lungfish,
Vladislav Delay,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cecil Taylor,
Jacques Brel,
Dual Sessions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
KRS-One,
The Sonics,
Metal Thangz,
Dennis Brown,
The Searchers,
Colin Newman,
The Gap Band,
Bill Near,
Henry Cow,
The Mojo Men,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mr. Review,
Ituana,
Radiohead,
The Sound,
AZ,
Aswad,
B.T. Express,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roxette,
Mission of Burma,
Youth Brigade,
Chrome,
Porter Ricks,
Archie Shepp,
The Kinks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deepchord,
Dead Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Lindisfarne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Index,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Black Pus,
The Wake,
Warren Ellis,
The Dirtbombs,
Unwound,
Nils Olav,
Kayak,
Quando Quango,
cv313,
Grauzone,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.