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 Belgium and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Misunderstood,
The Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Invisible,
Wire,
Reagan Youth,
Hardrive,
Depeche Mode,
These Immortal Souls,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Kerri Chandler,
Franke,
E-Dancer,
Television,
Jerry's Kids,
The Names,
Man Eating Sloth,
Morten Harket,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pere Ubu,
Tomorrow,
Bad Manners,
The Evens,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
New York Dolls,
Don Cherry,
Henry Cow,
Babytalk,
The Skatalites,
ABBA,
Wings,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Kinks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Selecter,
Popol Vuh,
John Foxx,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
the Human League,
Ronan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeff Mills,
In Retrospect,
Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
Duran Duran,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cure,
La Düsseldorf,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
kango's stein massive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Durutti Column,
Loose Ends,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.