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 Sri Lanka and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare 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 Depeche Mode to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Crime,
The Electric Prunes,
Bauhaus,
Erasure,
Radio Birdman,
The Gladiators,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Leonard Cohen,
Tears for Fears,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crispian St. Peters,
Letta Mbulu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
OOIOO,
Lakeside,
The Fortunes,
Godley & Creme,
Motorama,
Jerry's Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
ABC,
Pylon,
Eric Copeland,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Alison Limerick,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultravox,
Faraquet,
AZ,
Au Pairs,
Susan Cadogan,
Icehouse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Foxx,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amon Düül II,
Soulsonic Force,
Throbbing Gristle,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mission of Burma,
FM Einheit,
Royal Trux,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
48th St. Collective,
The Moleskins,
The Grass Roots,
Malaria!,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Absolute Body Control,
Pussy Galore,
Funkadelic,
The Smoke,
Thompson Twins,
Simply Red,
Rosa Yemen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.