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 Tonga and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 The Searchers to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Christie,
D'Angelo,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Walker Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
Thompson Twins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joyce Sims,
Gang of Four,
Schoolly D,
The Slits,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Black Sheep,
Radiopuhelimet,
Japan,
Junior Murvin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alton Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Alison Limerick,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q and Not U,
Boredoms,
Soul II Soul,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Smog,
Hoover,
Simply Red,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker,
Derrick May,
Kas Product,
The Moleskins,
K-Klass,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sight & Sound,
X-Ray Spex,
Barclay James Harvest,
Severed Heads,
Rekid,
The Misunderstood,
Public Enemy,
Cal Tjader,
Anthony Braxton,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Smoke,
Camouflage,
The Happenings,
Ultravox,
John Cale,
Nirvana,
Essential Logic,
Qualms,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Moon,
Chris Corsano,
Ornette Coleman,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.