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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator 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 Blancmange to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
X-102,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scrapy,
The Index,
Soulsonic Force,
Marmalade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Au Pairs,
Boredoms,
Anakelly,
Davy DMX,
Blossom Toes,
Stetsasonic,
Marine Girls,
MDC,
Skarface,
Erykah Badu,
Ituana,
Derrick May,
Mark Hollis,
The Count Five,
Gong,
Black Pus,
Tommy Roe,
Swans,
The Gun Club,
The Standells,
Bob Dylan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Can,
The Modern Lovers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sällskapet,
Avey Tare,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
ABBA,
Mission of Burma,
Janne Schatter,
Sarah Menescal,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake,
The New Christs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Maurizio,
Rod Modell,
Kas Product,
MC5,
Judy Mowatt,
Duran Duran,
Pharoah Sanders,
Donny Hathaway,
Ice-T,
The Cure,
Country Teasers,
Eve St. Jones,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.