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 Austria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Iggy Pop 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suicide record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Wings,
Lou Reed,
Tom Boy,
Rites of Spring,
Mandrill,
Flash Fearless,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sonic Youth,
Main Source,
Joey Negro,
The Moleskins,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Star Department,
Minnie Riperton,
Depeche Mode,
Blancmange,
Black Flag,
Glambeats Corp.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Swans,
Accadde A,
Roger Hodgson,
Arcadia,
Aloha Tigers,
Symarip,
K-Klass,
The Dave Clark Five,
CMW,
Marcia Griffiths,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Associates,
Hashim,
Whodini,
Amazonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Names,
Faraquet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ice-T,
Agent Orange,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
Sight & Sound,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Vogues,
Nils Olav,
Magazine,
Dead Boys,
The Buckinghams,
Brick,
The Smoke,
Delta 5,
Iggy Pop,
D'Angelo,
Peter and Kerry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.