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 Liechtenstein and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Swell Maps to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Cheater Slicks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barbara Tucker,
Leonard Cohen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Severed Heads,
Young Marble Giants,
Gong,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Easy Going,
Moby Grape,
The Velvet Underground,
R.M.O.,
Half Japanese,
Malaria!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
The Vogues,
Hot Snakes,
Fear,
X-102,
Yellowson,
the Bar-Kays,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mandrill,
Trumans Water,
Scan 7,
The Sonics,
The Misunderstood,
a-ha,
T. Rex,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rhythm & Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Joey Negro,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oblivians,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
E-Dancer,
The Searchers,
Delta 5,
New Order,
Reagan Youth,
Newcleus,
Jawbox,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul II Soul,
T.S.O.L.,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Gories,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.