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 Benin and from Mexico City.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stereo Dub to the techno 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joyce Sims,
X-Ray Spex,
Morten Harket,
Stetsasonic,
Fear,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scan 7,
Depeche Mode,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nico,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ituana,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moleskins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brand Nubian,
Reuben Wilson,
Joy Division,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
PIL,
The Monks,
Newcleus,
Eric Copeland,
Ten City,
Tom Boy,
Eden Ahbez,
Scientists,
The Mummies,
The Star Department,
Unrelated Segments,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mantronix,
Basic Channel,
Agitation Free,
Ken Boothe,
Judy Mowatt,
Vladislav Delay,
Sister Nancy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Misunderstood,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Young Marble Giants,
Magma,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
The Names,
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
Ponytail,
Altered Images,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mo-Dettes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Circle Jerks,
Y Pants,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.