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 Guatemala and from Madrid.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Motorama to the rap 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 The New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Lightning Bolt,
Absolute Body Control,
Royal Trux,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Country Teasers,
10cc,
The Gun Club,
The Music Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slits,
Echospace,
Parry Music,
June Days,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Jacques Brel,
Henry Cow,
Goldenarms,
Thompson Twins,
Clear Light,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Althea and Donna,
Lebanon Hanover,
Howard Jones,
Rekid,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Mission of Burma,
John Holt,
Basic Channel,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronan,
Hashim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
Schoolly D,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fire Engines,
Altered Images,
Saccharine Trust,
Stereo Dub,
Gregory Isaacs,
Liliput,
Blancmange,
Fela Kuti,
La Düsseldorf,
H. Thieme,
Alison Limerick,
Leonard Cohen,
Mark Hollis,
Wolf Eyes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Gang Dance,
Skarface,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.