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 Trinidad & Tobago 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Evens,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kerri Chandler,
Make Up,
Gang of Four,
Dave Gahan,
Neil Young,
Rekid,
Liliput,
AZ,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Darondo,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
Simply Red,
kango's stein massive,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Zapp,
Avey Tare,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Inner City,
Eric Dolphy,
Ossler,
Youth Brigade,
Skarface,
Minnie Riperton,
Rosa Yemen,
Ponytail,
ABBA,
Danielle Patucci,
Ronan,
The American Breed,
Section 25,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alison Limerick,
Brand Nubian,
The Pretty Things,
Monks,
Michelle Simonal,
Junior Murvin,
Aural Exciters,
X-102,
New Order,
Bad Manners,
The Cowsills,
Mad Mike,
Bill Near,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DJ Sneak,
The Black Dice,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Techniques,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
Wire,
Peter and Kerry,
Mr. Review,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.