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 Barbados and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kaleidoscope to the grunge 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Popol Vuh,
Grey Daturas,
Soulsonic Force,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Anthony Braxton,
Joyce Sims,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Urselle,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
Whodini,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Terry Callier,
The Beau Brummels,
Unrelated Segments,
Banda Bassotti,
The Wake,
Swell Maps,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Desert Stars,
X-102,
Ossler,
Bobby Byrd,
Mr. Review,
Panda Bear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bad Manners,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
F. McDonald,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alton Ellis,
The Vogues,
The J.B.'s,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Warren Ellis,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Osbourne,
China Crisis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Spoonie Gee,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.