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 Denmark and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 the Human League to the grime 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Q and Not U,
The United States of America,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Rundgren,
Essential Logic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Bananas,
Robert Hood,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Victims,
Bush Tetras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bad Manners,
Bill Wells,
Pylon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Simply Red,
Reuben Wilson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Michelle Simonal,
Alice Coltrane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vladislav Delay,
The Barracudas,
The Five Americans,
Crime,
Crooked Eye,
Skriet,
The Slackers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Scientists,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soulsonic Force,
Sister Nancy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Basic Channel,
Scan 7,
Sun City Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Saints,
Aaron Thompson,
Magma,
Ronan,
The Evens,
Jacob Miller,
Arab on Radar,
Marcia Griffiths,
Albert Ayler,
Quantec,
Fatback Band,
Scion,
Magazine,
Davy DMX,
PIL,
Lakeside,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.