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 Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lucky Dragons to the funk 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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Parrish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Sheep,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Pus,
The Techniques,
Lee Hazlewood,
Warren Ellis,
The Dirtbombs,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cowsills,
The Red Krayola,
The Names,
Lower 48,
Ten City,
Aural Exciters,
The Knickerbockers,
This Heat,
Lakeside,
The Stooges,
T. Rex,
L. Decosne,
Das Ding,
The Star Department,
Gang Green,
Masters at Work,
EPMD,
Urselle,
David McCallum,
Flipper,
Marmalade,
Moss Icon,
The Leaves,
Sällskapet,
Soft Machine,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
Graham Central Station,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Negative Approach,
Basic Channel,
Crooked Eye,
Silicon Teens,
The Moody Blues,
Swans,
Symarip,
Stereo Dub,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Victims,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Country Teasers,
Josef K,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
Chris Corsano,
Laurel Aitken,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.