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 Japan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Smiths to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Godley & Creme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Porter Ricks,
The Motions,
Television Personalities,
New Order,
Scan 7,
Main Source,
Neu!,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Television,
David McCallum,
Livin' Joy,
Rites of Spring,
The Associates,
Sex Pistols,
Judy Mowatt,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Suburban Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Germs,
Hot Snakes,
Josef K,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sonics,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sam Rivers,
Can,
Chris & Cosey,
Procol Harum,
The Index,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pantytec,
Metal Thangz,
Smog,
David Bowie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Lydon,
Swell Maps,
The Five Americans,
Second Layer,
Au Pairs,
Groovy Waters,
AZ,
Erykah Badu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Spoonie Gee,
F. McDonald,
the Bar-Kays,
T. Rex,
Bill Near,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deepchord,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Human League,
John Foxx,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.