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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Marmalade,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Altered Images,
The Barracudas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Toasters,
Idris Muhammad,
Kaleidoscope,
The Searchers,
Warren Ellis,
Cymande,
Isaac Hayes,
Erykah Badu,
Throbbing Gristle,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jeru the Damaja,
Drexciya,
Amon Düül II,
Tears for Fears,
the Sonics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Victims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DJ Sneak,
Steve Hackett,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Susan Cadogan,
Theoretical Girls,
Lower 48,
Suicide,
Heaven 17,
The Last Poets,
L. Decosne,
Ludus,
Judy Mowatt,
Zero Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Monks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Pop Group,
The Leaves,
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
K-Klass,
Grauzone,
The Gun Club,
Technova,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Terry,
Rosa Yemen,
Intrusion,
FM Einheit,
Black Pus,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.