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 Manila.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
This Heat,
Pantaleimon,
The Music Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Divine Comedy,
John Cale,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Associates,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Index,
Mantronix,
Roger Hodgson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Evens,
Johnny Osbourne,
Todd Rundgren,
Fela Kuti,
June Days,
Godley & Creme,
Popol Vuh,
Scott Walker,
Wings,
Todd Terry,
Scion,
Radio Birdman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sister Nancy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Offenders,
Niagra,
Connie Case,
June of 44,
Accadde A,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Danielle Patucci,
The Motions,
The Neon Judgement,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Finger,
Metal Thangz,
The Black Dice,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
The Cure,
Buzzcocks,
Skaos,
Barbara Tucker,
Circle Jerks,
Laurel Aitken,
Sam Rivers,
The Last Poets,
Crime,
The Doors,
Model 500,
Kerrie Biddell,
Suicide,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.