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 Australia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Thompson Twins to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Flash Fearless,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
Swell Maps,
ABC,
Quadrant,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Index,
The Smiths,
Lower 48,
Bang On A Can,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jandek,
Minny Pops,
The Fire Engines,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Associates,
MDC,
The Busters,
Tim Buckley,
Morten Harket,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
X-Ray Spex,
Newcleus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Y Pants,
Peter and Kerry,
The Beau Brummels,
Dark Day,
Q and Not U,
Main Source,
Basic Channel,
Wire,
New York Dolls,
Qualms,
Laurel Aitken,
Tom Boy,
World's Most,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Electric Prunes,
cv313,
Ludus,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Harpers Bizarre,
The New Christs,
Delta 5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Walker Brothers,
Howard Jones,
David Axelrod,
Anthony Braxton,
Ohio Players,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.