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 Ethiopia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Lou Reed 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 Pet Shop Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Goldenarms,
Mantronix,
Niagra,
Quando Quango,
Nas,
The Kinks,
Todd Terry,
Erykah Badu,
Schoolly D,
The Pop Group,
Carl Craig,
Yaz,
Sun Ra,
Can,
Michelle Simonal,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
X-102,
Urselle,
The Techniques,
Cal Tjader,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Foxx,
Sparks,
Faust,
Josef K,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Iggy Pop,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Smooth,
Con Funk Shun,
Gabor Szabo,
The Trojans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
World's Most,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Halsall,
Shoche,
Stiv Bators,
The Residents,
AZ,
Icehouse,
Johnny Clarke,
The Skatalites,
Soft Machine,
Roxette,
Patti Smith,
Wasted Youth,
Marvin Gaye,
Freddie Wadling,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soulsonic Force,
EPMD,
The Seeds,
Tim Buckley,
Radiohead,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.