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 Estonia and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gories to the dance 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Harry Pussy,
Fela Kuti,
Accadde A,
Excepter,
Zero Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
Niagra,
Saccharine Trust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nico,
Jeff Lynne,
Joyce Sims,
Darondo,
Connie Case,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Babytalk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harmonia,
Wings,
Television Personalities,
The Seeds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vladislav Delay,
Kenny Larkin,
Surgeon,
Robert Görl,
Skriet,
The Victims,
Pulsallama,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Smiths,
Jesper Dahlback,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Flag,
the Association,
The Busters,
Joey Negro,
Electric Prunes,
B.T. Express,
Nils Olav,
Dave Gahan,
Lower 48,
Mr. Review,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Spandau Ballet,
Pantytec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gabor Szabo,
Mo-Dettes,
Idris Muhammad,
Davy DMX,
Gang Gang Dance,
In Retrospect,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scion,
The Gladiators,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.