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 Guatemala and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Spandau Ballet to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Tubeway Army,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Desert Stars,
David Axelrod,
Eddi Front,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anthony Braxton,
Freddie Wadling,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Foxx,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dave Gahan,
Schoolly D,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Guru Guru,
Scion,
Skarface,
kango's stein massive,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pantaleimon,
The Blackbyrds,
Y Pants,
Ohio Players,
Joe Smooth,
D'Angelo,
Jacques Brel,
Subhumans,
Porter Ricks,
The Motions,
Youth Brigade,
Livin' Joy,
The Offenders,
Darondo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Suburban Knight,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Faraquet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeff Mills,
Man Eating Sloth,
Malaria!,
Bill Near,
A Certain Ratio,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Wolf Eyes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Essential Logic,
Wings,
Sam Rivers,
Thee Headcoats,
Joyce Sims,
La Düsseldorf,
Buzzcocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.