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 Uzbekistan and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe 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 Chris Corsano to the disco 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dave Gahan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
a-ha,
PIL,
Radiohead,
Excepter,
The Beau Brummels,
Juan Atkins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Shuggie Otis,
Junior Murvin,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Chris Corsano,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Saccharine Trust,
Cameo,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Starr,
Wire,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Slick Rick,
Robert Görl,
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
Todd Rundgren,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
Eve St. Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Funkadelic,
Dual Sessions,
Dark Day,
Erasure,
Porter Ricks,
Symarip,
Jacques Brel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minnie Riperton,
Eden Ahbez,
Davy DMX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harmonia,
Soft Machine,
Pierre Henry,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Banda Bassotti,
David McCallum,
cv313,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Steve Hackett,
Sight & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.