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 Marshall Islands and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Marc Almond,
The Motions,
the Swans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Offenders,
The Golliwogs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ornette Coleman,
Visage,
These Immortal Souls,
The Invisible,
Eric Copeland,
Dead Boys,
Accadde A,
The Blues Magoos,
Rhythm & Sound,
Intrusion,
Scrapy,
Yaz,
Fluxion,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Desert Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zapp,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joyce Sims,
Tears for Fears,
Sister Nancy,
Blossom Toes,
The Seeds,
Yellowson,
Saccharine Trust,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alton Ellis,
Malaria!,
Lyres,
Isaac Hayes,
Theoretical Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hasil Adkins,
Johnny Clarke,
The Vogues,
Sight & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Graham Central Station,
The Saints,
The Gories,
Boz Scaggs,
Talk Talk,
Terry Callier,
Niagra,
The Star Department,
Ultravox,
China Crisis,
Public Image Ltd.,
Prince Buster,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.