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 Yemen and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 cv313 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Association,
The Blackbyrds,
H. Thieme,
Ossler,
Metal Thangz,
Eddi Front,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wasted Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dennis Brown,
AZ,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
Clear Light,
Pole,
Shuggie Otis,
ABBA,
Gang Starr,
OOIOO,
One Last Wish,
Cluster,
Nation of Ulysses,
Matthew Bourne,
Circle Jerks,
Dave Gahan,
Con Funk Shun,
The Offenders,
Rapeman,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Bananas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kas Product,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fall,
Soft Cell,
Average White Band,
The Vogues,
Chris & Cosey,
The Smiths,
The Neon Judgement,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pylon,
Minutemen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nas,
E-Dancer,
the Human League,
Peter & Gordon,
Lakeside,
Bootsy Collins,
Main Source,
Newcleus,
Hot Snakes,
The Happenings,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.