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 Qatar and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar 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 Mantronix 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Urselle,
Crime,
The Pretty Things,
Gong,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skriet,
Royal Trux,
Brick,
Masters at Work,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wasted Youth,
Lakeside,
Patti Smith,
K-Klass,
The Fall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Accadde A,
The Invisible,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fort Wilson Riot,
China Crisis,
The Pop Group,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Reed,
Animal Collective,
Pantaleimon,
Lucky Dragons,
Soft Cell,
Grey Daturas,
Mo-Dettes,
Joe Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
Ronnie Foster,
Susan Cadogan,
Hashim,
Flash Fearless,
Boz Scaggs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Supertramp,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yellowson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sugar Minott,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Depeche Mode,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Sheep,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.