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 Mauritius and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alarm Clocks to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Franke,
Rapeman,
Quadrant,
the Human League,
The Motions,
The Victims,
Liliput,
Bobby Womack,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June Days,
Yellowson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Icehouse,
FM Einheit,
The J.B.'s,
The Trojans,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lightning Bolt,
Can,
China Crisis,
Symarip,
Massinfluence,
Roger Hodgson,
Rites of Spring,
Marmalade,
Reagan Youth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeff Mills,
The Human League,
Swell Maps,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Delon & Dalcan,
Connie Case,
The Techniques,
Con Funk Shun,
The Leaves,
Average White Band,
Fad Gadget,
Pantytec,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Normal,
Robert Wyatt,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Sherman,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Man Parrish,
The Associates,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Alphaville,
Ronan,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.