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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Howard Jones,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Residents,
OOIOO,
Eric Copeland,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Human League,
Sparks,
Pagans,
The Mojo Men,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Susan Cadogan,
Urselle,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare,
The Motions,
James White and The Blacks,
The Velvet Underground,
Carl Craig,
Aaron Thompson,
Barry Ungar,
Crispy Ambulance,
Darondo,
Supertramp,
Audionom,
Gichy Dan,
Mantronix,
New Order,
Kaleidoscope,
Ice-T,
The Knickerbockers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Patti Smith,
Symarip,
Slick Rick,
Ronan,
Bobby Womack,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visage,
ABC,
Bill Wells,
The Gun Club,
Jandek,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
Sixth Finger,
John Foxx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Victims,
Harmonia,
Stetsasonic,
The Buckinghams,
Lalann,
Amon Düül II,
Trumans Water,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.