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 China and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar 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 Deepchord to the rock 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Essential Logic,
Vainqueur,
Yellowson,
Supertramp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
E-Dancer,
Suburban Knight,
The Associates,
Make Up,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Zero Boys,
Amon Düül II,
Alphaville,
Newcleus,
Excepter,
Flipper,
Livin' Joy,
Thompson Twins,
The Selecter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Moebius,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
The Zeros,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flash Fearless,
Technova,
Idris Muhammad,
Underground Resistance,
K-Klass,
Eric Dolphy,
Lungfish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Invisible,
Average White Band,
Morten Harket,
The Moody Blues,
Easy Going,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalann,
Parry Music,
Dual Sessions,
The Pretty Things,
Nick Fraelich,
Mad Mike,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Second Layer,
The Beau Brummels,
John Cale,
Sexual Harrassment,
U.S. Maple,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ossler,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
Lou Christie,
Sugar Minott,
The Vogues,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.