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 Grenada and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Aloha Tigers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Erykah Badu,
Josef K,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker,
Susan Cadogan,
Infiniti,
Scientists,
John Lydon,
Bang On A Can,
X-101,
Swell Maps,
Inner City,
Siglo XX,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pere Ubu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Altered Images,
Brick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Osbourne,
Charles Mingus,
Jeru the Damaja,
Niagra,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
X-102,
Quando Quango,
Bronski Beat,
The Modern Lovers,
The Toasters,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
The Dead C,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Drexciya,
The Smoke,
Organ,
The Beau Brummels,
The Standells,
Radiopuhelimet,
Groovy Waters,
Zero Boys,
Echospace,
the Slits,
Pylon,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
Minutemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Severed Heads,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.