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 Spain and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joy Division 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Todd Rundgren,
Essential Logic,
New Age Steppers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
Underground Resistance,
John Coltrane,
Matthew Halsall,
Ornette Coleman,
The Neon Judgement,
Scion,
Michelle Simonal,
Barbara Tucker,
D'Angelo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Cramps,
Radiohead,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Hood,
Bobby Byrd,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
8 Eyed Spy,
Das Ding,
the Association,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bootsy Collins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zero Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
Section 25,
Gabor Szabo,
Bill Near,
Johnny Clarke,
Yusef Lateef,
Nico,
Tomorrow,
Ossler,
Urselle,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Country Teasers,
The Fall,
Black Pus,
Skaos,
Silicon Teens,
kango's stein massive,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Pantytec,
The Fire Engines,
Harry Pussy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
In Retrospect,
Ituana,
Roxy Music,
R.M.O.,
T.S.O.L.,
Inner City,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.