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 Macedonia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Iggy Pop to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Vladislav Delay,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tropical Tobacco,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
This Heat,
Sam Rivers,
Max Romeo,
Kayak,
Popol Vuh,
The Moleskins,
10cc,
MDC,
Quando Quango,
the Fania All-Stars,
JFA,
Mark Hollis,
John Coltrane,
Severed Heads,
The Grass Roots,
Alison Limerick,
Second Layer,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
Neil Young,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
The Pretty Things,
Pylon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Juan Atkins,
Bad Manners,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
ABBA,
Lou Christie,
The Flesh Eaters,
Archie Shepp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
FM Einheit,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Byron Stingily,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gladiators,
The Tremeloes,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Buckinghams,
Adolescents,
Duran Duran,
Gang Green,
Marine Girls,
Sällskapet,
Wings,
Deepchord,
Bauhaus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Kinks,
Fad Gadget,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.