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 Mongolia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Siglo XX to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica 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?
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
Nik Kershaw,
Chris Corsano,
China Crisis,
Lyres,
Tropical Tobacco,
Letta Mbulu,
The Human League,
Agitation Free,
Blake Baxter,
Steve Hackett,
Crash Course in Science,
Monolake,
Erasure,
Suburban Knight,
Royal Trux,
Idris Muhammad,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Tremeloes,
Bang On A Can,
Icehouse,
The Pop Group,
Mary Jane Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Desert Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Move,
Gichy Dan,
Negative Approach,
John Coltrane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Womack,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
Moss Icon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Toni Rubio,
the Slits,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bauhaus,
The Electric Prunes,
Crime,
The Motions,
Wings,
Alison Limerick,
X-Ray Spex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zero Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Buckinghams,
Bob Dylan,
Chris & Cosey,
Sparks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.