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 Micronesia and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 X-101 to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Donny Hathaway,
Niagra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Reagan Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Von Mondo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rotary Connection,
Main Source,
Ice-T,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Red Krayola,
the Swans,
Quantec,
Deadbeat,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Black Dice,
the Human League,
Skriet,
Don Cherry,
John Holt,
Severed Heads,
Delta 5,
Television,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deepchord,
World's Most,
Marine Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nico,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cluster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Black Sheep,
Audionom,
Public Enemy,
Schoolly D,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
L. Decosne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Basic Channel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harry Pussy,
Crime,
ABC,
FM Einheit,
Alphaville,
The Evens,
The Fuzztones,
Arthur Verocai,
The Grass Roots,
Funkadelic,
the Association,
Surgeon,
Depeche Mode,
The Index,
Ronan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.