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 Estonia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Flipper to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Matthew Bourne,
Ken Boothe,
Shoche,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Index,
Bronski Beat,
Inner City,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
One Last Wish,
The New Christs,
Marc Almond,
Accadde A,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Harmonia,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tubeway Army,
Whodini,
Bad Manners,
The Busters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sam Rivers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mars,
The Victims,
Wings,
Cal Tjader,
Quantec,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Essential Logic,
These Immortal Souls,
Davy DMX,
Warsaw,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Icehouse,
Jeff Mills,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABC,
Slave,
Thompson Twins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cecil Taylor,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Von Mondo,
Delta 5,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.