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 Greece and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Banda Bassotti to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and an organ 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 mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Zapp,
Avey Tare,
Delta 5,
Franke,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Happenings,
Hot Snakes,
Simply Red,
The Dead C,
Robert Hood,
Bob Dylan,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Techniques,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Byrd,
Crooked Eye,
Gabor Szabo,
Masters at Work,
The Searchers,
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marmalade,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Wells,
JFA,
The Divine Comedy,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grey Daturas,
Blancmange,
Amazonics,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rekid,
Guru Guru,
Susan Cadogan,
48th St. Collective,
Procol Harum,
Eurythmics,
The Fall,
The Offenders,
X-101,
Stereo Dub,
Nik Kershaw,
The Mighty Diamonds,
MC5,
Skriet,
Roger Hodgson,
Donald Byrd,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
Gong,
Steve Hackett,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Human League,
Symarip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rapeman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.