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 Hungary and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the dance 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Walker Brothers,
The Remains,
Matthew Halsall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Ultravox,
The Cramps,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeff Mills,
Man Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Foxx,
Sällskapet,
the Slits,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Iggy Pop,
Josef K,
Cymande,
The Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
Cameo,
Kas Product,
The Mummies,
Erykah Badu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Ituana,
Marc Almond,
Ponytail,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skarface,
Reuben Wilson,
Crash Course in Science,
Brothers Johnson,
Blossom Toes,
The Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
EPMD,
Camberwell Now,
Pagans,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
10cc,
Desert Stars,
Television Personalities,
Ohio Players,
Lower 48,
The Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Chris Corsano,
Ten City,
Yazoo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Starr,
Bad Manners,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Copeland,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.