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 Japan and from Lille.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ohio Players,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Blancmange,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Quantec,
Matthew Bourne,
David Axelrod,
Hot Snakes,
Donald Byrd,
Funky Four + One,
Alison Limerick,
the Germs,
Fluxion,
Jimmy McGriff,
Spoonie Gee,
The Slits,
The Sonics,
Deakin,
Sällskapet,
Little Man,
Zapp,
The Cramps,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Alphaville,
Scrapy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gang Green,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Wasted Youth,
The Durutti Column,
The Real Kids,
Supertramp,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Five Americans,
Saccharine Trust,
Icehouse,
PIL,
La Düsseldorf,
Pantytec,
New York Dolls,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Wake,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mantronix,
Mo-Dettes,
Drexciya,
Intrusion,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Womack,
Subhumans,
Brand Nubian,
Inner City,
Lower 48,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.