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 Rwanda and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 Mad Mike to the crunk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Harpers Bizarre,
Duran Duran,
Agent Orange,
Smog,
The Doobie Brothers,
Guru Guru,
Schoolly D,
Motorama,
Dave Gahan,
Accadde A,
the Slits,
Joe Finger,
Ituana,
Bob Dylan,
Kayak,
Soul Sonic Force,
DJ Sneak,
Average White Band,
Urselle,
Junior Murvin,
The Young Rascals,
ABBA,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Green,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
10cc,
Charles Mingus,
Marvin Gaye,
Graham Central Station,
The Slits,
The Associates,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Royal Trux,
Mark Hollis,
The Gap Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chris & Cosey,
Archie Shepp,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jeff Mills,
Pantytec,
Terrestrial Tones,
Janne Schatter,
Deadbeat,
Bobby Byrd,
Mad Mike,
The Knickerbockers,
Scientists,
James White and The Blacks,
Essential Logic,
Television Personalities,
The Pop Group,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Q65,
Fear,
Monolake,
Wings,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.