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 Greece 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Isaac Hayes to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nico,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aloha Tigers,
Sound Behaviour,
Radiohead,
Essential Logic,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Cale,
Sällskapet,
Cymande,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fugs,
Joy Division,
Matthew Halsall,
The Gun Club,
Au Pairs,
Camouflage,
Tom Boy,
The Grass Roots,
The Smoke,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Reuben Wilson,
Lyres,
K-Klass,
Panda Bear,
48th St. Collective,
The Moody Blues,
The Young Rascals,
Rufus Thomas,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Chrome,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Godley & Creme,
Hardrive,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Can,
Guru Guru,
Terry Callier,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
ABBA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Los Fastidios,
Jacques Brel,
Mantronix,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dawn Penn,
AZ,
The Fire Engines,
Scott Walker,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Smooth,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.