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 Korea North and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Monochrome Set to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Silicon Teens,
The Beau Brummels,
Adolescents,
Dave Gahan,
The Move,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Audionom,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The J.B.'s,
Pagans,
Slave,
Steve Hackett,
Shoche,
Shuggie Otis,
Henry Cow,
Liliput,
Patti Smith,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dark Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Smoke,
Ituana,
Andrew Hill,
The Cramps,
Crime,
Blossom Toes,
Average White Band,
48th St. Collective,
Ken Boothe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Cure,
Bill Wells,
Rapeman,
Japan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unwound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alice Coltrane,
Harmonia,
Aaron Thompson,
Subhumans,
Easy Going,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fugazi,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Lynne,
Bluetip,
The Moleskins,
Symarip,
Sight & Sound,
Hoover,
Lower 48,
Monks,
Stereo Dub,
Alphaville,
Joe Smooth,
Talk Talk,
The Doors,
Connie Case,
Thompson Twins,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.