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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Inner City to the grime 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Soulsonic Force,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nirvana,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Arcadia,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Clarke,
Gil Scott Heron,
Oneida,
X-102,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stockholm Monsters,
Morten Harket,
the Association,
Radio Birdman,
James White and The Blacks,
In Retrospect,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New Order,
Sarah Menescal,
The Cowsills,
The Grass Roots,
Mark Hollis,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
the Normal,
Alice Coltrane,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scratch Acid,
JFA,
Magma,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rakim,
Dennis Brown,
The Doors,
Shoche,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Busters,
The Blues Magoos,
Aaron Thompson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tommy Roe,
Bauhaus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maurizio,
New York Dolls,
Lower 48,
Chris & Cosey,
Electric Prunes,
The Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.