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 Argentina and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gun Club to the grime 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Reed,
Henry Cow,
Cybotron,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
Theoretical Girls,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
Trumans Water,
Supertramp,
Organ,
Sparks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
This Heat,
The Index,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Minny Pops,
Jacob Miller,
Japan,
Intrusion,
Rufus Thomas,
Roy Ayers,
Q and Not U,
Depeche Mode,
Bad Manners,
The Beau Brummels,
Yaz,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fortunes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vladislav Delay,
Electric Prunes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Alarm Clocks,
Charles Mingus,
Terry Callier,
Godley & Creme,
The Evens,
Swell Maps,
Matthew Bourne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Maurizio,
The Residents,
Marc Almond,
Royal Trux,
Rakim,
Mad Mike,
Brass Construction,
The Black Dice,
Jerry's Kids,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Black Moon,
The Motions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.