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 Brunei and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Slave to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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 Fortunes,
Gichy Dan,
Jawbox,
Deepchord,
Fad Gadget,
a-ha,
Grey Daturas,
Harmonia,
FM Einheit,
Avey Tare,
Negative Approach,
Nils Olav,
Moebius,
L. Decosne,
U.S. Maple,
The Five Americans,
Echospace,
Bill Near,
Chrome,
X-Ray Spex,
Nirvana,
The Happenings,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
T.S.O.L.,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Rod Modell,
Bang On A Can,
Kurtis Blow,
Prince Buster,
Procol Harum,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Index,
Stiv Bators,
Roger Hodgson,
Todd Terry,
The Techniques,
Eve St. Jones,
Little Man,
Television Personalities,
Brand Nubian,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Moody Blues,
Intrusion,
Cybotron,
Goldenarms,
Nas,
Angry Samoans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mission of Burma,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
Jeff Mills,
Radio Birdman,
Lungfish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacques Brel,
Depeche Mode,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.