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 Portugal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moebius to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx 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?
Deakin,
The Associates,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Porter Ricks,
Technova,
Soul II Soul,
Drexciya,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Association,
Laurel Aitken,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chrome,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
Dawn Penn,
Jawbox,
Visage,
Rosa Yemen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Theoretical Girls,
Make Up,
Patti Smith,
Ornette Coleman,
The Happenings,
Skaos,
Soul Sonic Force,
New Order,
Sound Behaviour,
Robert Görl,
The Cowsills,
DJ Style,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Halsall,
FM Einheit,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stiv Bators,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gong,
Negative Approach,
The Gap Band,
Morten Harket,
Nik Kershaw,
Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Anakelly,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Dead C,
Sällskapet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Quadrant,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Bourne,
Procol Harum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Mills,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.