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 Singapore and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 the Bar-Kays 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Lindisfarne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare,
Judy Mowatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ossler,
Sparks,
A Certain Ratio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Leaves,
Joey Negro,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
DJ Style,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter and Kerry,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Black Dice,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Slits,
Gang Green,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marc Almond,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Technova,
Scion,
Terry Callier,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Darondo,
the Slits,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alphaville,
Public Enemy,
Matthew Bourne,
The Gories,
Yaz,
The Barracudas,
Masters at Work,
The Move,
JFA,
Juan Atkins,
Intrusion,
Shoche,
Popol Vuh,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Residents,
Make Up,
CMW,
Nico,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.