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 Malta and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Gong to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Halsall,
The Move,
Hot Snakes,
Faust,
John Cale,
DJ Style,
Kurtis Blow,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monochrome Set,
Outsiders,
Bluetip,
Visage,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric Copeland,
The Leaves,
Minnie Riperton,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kayak,
Sound Behaviour,
Scan 7,
Kas Product,
Erykah Badu,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Zeros,
Gastr Del Sol,
Laurel Aitken,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
U.S. Maple,
La Düsseldorf,
DNA,
LL Cool J,
Niagra,
Mission of Burma,
Suicide,
Porter Ricks,
Cal Tjader,
the Slits,
John Lydon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rakim,
The Wake,
Royal Trux,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marshall Jefferson,
Simply Red,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Smiths,
Nico,
The Mummies,
Girls At Our Best!,
Erasure,
Dave Gahan,
Soft Cell,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.