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 Somalia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Youth Brigade to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tim Buckley,
Wasted Youth,
The Selecter,
The J.B.'s,
Magazine,
Mantronix,
Ituana,
Donny Hathaway,
Fluxion,
Joe Smooth,
PIL,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Techniques,
The Searchers,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Grass Roots,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Toni Rubio,
Absolute Body Control,
The Evens,
Monolake,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Neon Judgement,
the Slits,
The Trojans,
Lucky Dragons,
Mo-Dettes,
World's Most,
Fear,
Oneida,
Rekid,
New Order,
Al Stewart,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
Essential Logic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tres Demented,
Stockholm Monsters,
Tommy Roe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Junior Murvin,
Dave Gahan,
Nas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wolf Eyes,
Josef K,
Kas Product,
Spandau Ballet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Freddie Wadling,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Model 500,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.