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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Guru Guru to the rock 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Buzzcocks,
Black Flag,
One Last Wish,
Soft Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
L. Decosne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
In Retrospect,
Erasure,
Nils Olav,
Procol Harum,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gong,
Connie Case,
E-Dancer,
Flash Fearless,
The Saints,
Gichy Dan,
Metal Thangz,
Vainqueur,
Kas Product,
John Foxx,
Subhumans,
Patti Smith,
Malaria!,
Wolf Eyes,
The Invisible,
Anakelly,
Yaz,
Accadde A,
The Buckinghams,
John Coltrane,
Kenny Larkin,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-102,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Second Layer,
Lightning Bolt,
The United States of America,
Can,
The Victims,
Morten Harket,
The Star Department,
Mary Jane Girls,
Smog,
New York Dolls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pussy Galore,
Scratch Acid,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fatback Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Amazonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Audionom,
Outsiders,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.