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 Russia and from Beijing.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fad Gadget to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sonics,
Rod Modell,
Thee Headcoats,
Marvin Gaye,
Cal Tjader,
Harmonia,
Panda Bear,
Monolake,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joyce Sims,
Altered Images,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kenny Larkin,
Matthew Halsall,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Five Americans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Neu!,
Ultravox,
Soul II Soul,
Crime,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Sherman,
Prince Buster,
Idris Muhammad,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Parry Music,
Shoche,
Ohio Players,
Depeche Mode,
Camouflage,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gil Scott Heron,
Surgeon,
Quando Quango,
Scan 7,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Adolescents,
Amon Düül,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Junior Murvin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pagans,
Eddi Front,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Lakeside,
The Real Kids,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Wells,
Electric Prunes,
the Sonics,
Kayak,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pierre Henry,
Robert Görl,
ABBA,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.