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 Palau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Desert Stars to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Selecter. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fad Gadget,
Flash Fearless,
Television Personalities,
Soulsonic Force,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rod Modell,
Mars,
Tubeway Army,
Interpol,
Skarface,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Star Department,
Technova,
EPMD,
Grey Daturas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Remains,
Pole,
Harmonia,
Brand Nubian,
Letta Mbulu,
Gregory Isaacs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed,
Shoche,
The Cowsills,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marmalade,
Pussy Galore,
The J.B.'s,
the Swans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
K-Klass,
Erasure,
Dual Sessions,
The Saints,
Kayak,
the Slits,
Das Ding,
Silicon Teens,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mad Mike,
Absolute Body Control,
The Five Americans,
Adolescents,
Scrapy,
Yazoo,
Brick,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Los Fastidios,
Lungfish,
Laurel Aitken,
Robert Hood,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.