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 Mozambique and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 mellotron 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 Dave Gahan to the techno 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Rakim,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sugar Minott,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Davy DMX,
Infiniti,
Man Parrish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Khruangbin,
DNA,
Basic Channel,
Eddi Front,
Isaac Hayes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ten City,
The Fire Engines,
Crash Course in Science,
The Beau Brummels,
the Germs,
Peter and Kerry,
Chris Corsano,
Gregory Isaacs,
Carl Craig,
Leonard Cohen,
Subhumans,
Technova,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aural Exciters,
Delta 5,
The Young Rascals,
Wire,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Mandrill,
The Knickerbockers,
Zero Boys,
The Fugs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Detroit Cobras,
Max Romeo,
Chrome,
New Order,
Sun City Girls,
Duran Duran,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Godley & Creme,
Magazine,
10cc,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Symarip,
Byron Stingily,
ABC,
DJ Sneak,
New Age Steppers,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.