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 Vietnam and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sarah Menescal to the electroclash 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Nas,
Outsiders,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mantronix,
Dave Gahan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crash Course in Science,
Duran Duran,
Bad Manners,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wings,
Pylon,
Thee Headcoats,
Yaz,
Subhumans,
Funky Four + One,
Swell Maps,
Alphaville,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Clear Light,
Idris Muhammad,
Qualms,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Kinks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Robert Wyatt,
Fear,
The Gap Band,
Wire,
Scan 7,
Goldenarms,
New Order,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Normal,
Amon Düül II,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tommy Roe,
The Walker Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
48th St. Collective,
Rod Modell,
Urselle,
Roxy Music,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wolf Eyes,
Ossler,
Johnny Osbourne,
Charles Mingus,
La Düsseldorf,
Matthew Bourne,
Average White Band,
Mr. Review,
Sugar Minott,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lyres,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.