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 Monaco and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Radiopuhelimet to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
PIL,
Parry Music,
Soft Machine,
Erasure,
Hashim,
Desert Stars,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Smiths,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Maurizio,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Buckinghams,
Robert Hood,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra,
The Selecter,
Cymande,
Anakelly,
Agent Orange,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brothers Johnson,
EPMD,
Piero Umiliani,
June of 44,
Saccharine Trust,
Swell Maps,
Harpers Bizarre,
OOIOO,
Qualms,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Carl Craig,
Quadrant,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Ronan,
Black Bananas,
Kas Product,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
The Smoke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
D'Angelo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sandy B,
Flamin' Groovies,
Slick Rick,
Banda Bassotti,
Flipper,
Q and Not U,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Gladiators,
The Fuzztones,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grauzone,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.