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 Maldives and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 John Lydon to the dance 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Iggy Pop,
Eden Ahbez,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Althea and Donna,
Johnny Clarke,
John Foxx,
Quando Quango,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Birthday Party,
Lower 48,
Yellowson,
Neil Young,
Harmonia,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minnie Riperton,
the Association,
X-Ray Spex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fugazi,
Boz Scaggs,
Tears for Fears,
Talk Talk,
The Fire Engines,
Man Parrish,
Skriet,
Sparks,
Juan Atkins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Television,
Interpol,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wally Richardson,
Isaac Hayes,
John Holt,
The Golliwogs,
Swans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brand Nubian,
Erasure,
Ken Boothe,
Robert Görl,
Nas,
Bootsy Collins,
Japan,
Peter & Gordon,
Lyres,
The Vogues,
Bill Wells,
The Remains,
Moby Grape,
Gregory Isaacs,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Desert Stars,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grauzone,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.