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 Germany and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar 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 Sisters of Mercy 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barrington Levy,
Pulsallama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hashim,
Altered Images,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
Maurizio,
The Birthday Party,
Graham Central Station,
Surgeon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Black Pus,
Mark Hollis,
Hardrive,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pere Ubu,
Harmonia,
Scientists,
The Gap Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joe Smooth,
Scratch Acid,
Skaos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Parry Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joyce Sims,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Q and Not U,
Ultimate Spinach,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Albert Ayler,
The Divine Comedy,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crash Course in Science,
Eric Copeland,
Matthew Bourne,
Stereo Dub,
New Age Steppers,
Faust,
Intrusion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Last Poets,
Eden Ahbez,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.