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 Niger and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Beau Brummels 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Shoche,
Public Enemy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stereo Dub,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Toni Rubio,
Wally Richardson,
Eurythmics,
Blancmange,
Agitation Free,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Reed,
Scion,
Porter Ricks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Slave,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fugazi,
The Electric Prunes,
Suburban Knight,
Essential Logic,
Television,
The Victims,
Liliput,
Crash Course in Science,
Lalann,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
China Crisis,
The Blues Magoos,
KRS-One,
Sandy B,
Vainqueur,
Half Japanese,
Bronski Beat,
Jandek,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The New Christs,
Skaos,
Eric Dolphy,
Bootsy Collins,
Ronnie Foster,
Blake Baxter,
Iggy Pop,
La Düsseldorf,
Electric Prunes,
Gong,
Bobby Sherman,
The Litter,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Isaac Hayes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Pus,
Lightning Bolt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Order,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.