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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 punk 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Tubeway Army,
Derrick Morgan,
Von Mondo,
Reagan Youth,
JFA,
Television,
The Music Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker,
the Slits,
Marcia Griffiths,
Monolake,
Saccharine Trust,
Zero Boys,
X-101,
Girls At Our Best!,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Crash Course in Science,
The Monks,
John Lydon,
Lindisfarne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gong,
Dennis Brown,
David Axelrod,
E-Dancer,
The Trojans,
Amazonics,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
Jacob Miller,
Yellowson,
The Slackers,
X-102,
Stetsasonic,
Babytalk,
The Fortunes,
Chris Corsano,
The Black Dice,
Eric Copeland,
Swell Maps,
Mantronix,
Quantec,
Black Bananas,
Rosa Yemen,
Absolute Body Control,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Alison Limerick,
Jawbox,
Dawn Penn,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Michelle Simonal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Busters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joy Division,
Cameo,
Rites of Spring,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.