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 Sweden and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sound Behaviour to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Babytalk,
FM Einheit,
Con Funk Shun,
Ten City,
EPMD,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
Fat Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mr. Review,
Excepter,
Letta Mbulu,
Eurythmics,
Morten Harket,
Flamin' Groovies,
Basic Channel,
Organ,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Zeros,
Half Japanese,
Roger Hodgson,
Joey Negro,
Kool Moe Dee,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gil Scott Heron,
Q and Not U,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Sherman,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Machine,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
The J.B.'s,
The Fall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rites of Spring,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
One Last Wish,
Nik Kershaw,
Skriet,
The Index,
Neil Young,
Camberwell Now,
Avey Tare,
Cybotron,
The Gladiators,
Supertramp,
Soft Cell,
Marvin Gaye,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.