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 Kosovo and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dave Gahan to the techno 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Second Layer,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-102,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marine Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hoover,
The Young Rascals,
Rotary Connection,
June Days,
The Selecter,
Audionom,
Q and Not U,
Ornette Coleman,
Schoolly D,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Excepter,
Danielle Patucci,
Unrelated Segments,
Porter Ricks,
Kayak,
B.T. Express,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crooked Eye,
The Doors,
Skriet,
Gang Green,
The Skatalites,
Anthony Braxton,
The Golliwogs,
Royal Trux,
Mission of Burma,
The Litter,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faust,
The Fortunes,
Crash Course in Science,
Average White Band,
DJ Sneak,
Soul II Soul,
Barbara Tucker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
CMW,
Bauhaus,
Tomorrow,
Lower 48,
Crime,
The Red Krayola,
Roxy Music,
Connie Case,
Peter & Gordon,
Circle Jerks,
Motorama,
the Human League,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.