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 Latvia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 E-Dancer to the techno 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Funkadelic,
Iggy Pop,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Suicide,
Spandau Ballet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
The Fortunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Hood,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
Outsiders,
The Selecter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aural Exciters,
Mantronix,
Flash Fearless,
the Human League,
The Fugs,
Sixth Finger,
Unrelated Segments,
Mission of Burma,
Liliput,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Average White Band,
The Standells,
Janne Schatter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grauzone,
Bill Near,
Crime,
Saccharine Trust,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boredoms,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Duran Duran,
Swans,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Pop Group,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Moody Blues,
Cybotron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pulsallama,
The Cowsills,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.