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 Ghana and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
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 snare 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 Nils Olav to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Soulsonic Force,
Agitation Free,
The Wake,
Marmalade,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blancmange,
The Moody Blues,
The Remains,
The Angels of Light,
Reuben Wilson,
Crooked Eye,
Procol Harum,
Q65,
The Move,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ice-T,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cluster,
Blake Baxter,
Sandy B,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rotary Connection,
Cybotron,
Radio Birdman,
Urselle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Steve Hackett,
Rakim,
Brick,
Bauhaus,
the Normal,
MC5,
Average White Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bluetip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Faraquet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
PIL,
Warren Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Smog,
AZ,
F. McDonald,
The Leaves,
Shoche,
Quadrant,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dave Gahan,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
Jerry's Kids,
Aloha Tigers,
The Skatalites,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.