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 Bahrain and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Negative Approach to the techno 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alphaville,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Q and Not U,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA,
Sight & Sound,
Quando Quango,
The Happenings,
Guru Guru,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Buzzcocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
This Heat,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
Toni Rubio,
Negative Approach,
Aural Exciters,
Whodini,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pierre Henry,
AZ,
World's Most,
Iggy Pop,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deakin,
Skaos,
Excepter,
Mr. Review,
Ludus,
Spoonie Gee,
the Swans,
Monks,
Pylon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gang Gang Dance,
Electric Prunes,
Nirvana,
X-101,
Pantytec,
Mad Mike,
Marshall Jefferson,
Newcleus,
Anakelly,
Kas Product,
the Soft Cell,
X-102,
London Community Gospel Choir,
MDC,
E-Dancer,
Ponytail,
Little Man,
Ten City,
Yaz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
L. Decosne,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.