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 Italy and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Intrusion to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quando Quango,
Soul II Soul,
ABC,
the Germs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Standells,
David Bowie,
Ponytail,
Bizarre Inc.,
Radio Birdman,
Mars,
Half Japanese,
The Cramps,
Black Pus,
Dave Gahan,
Heaven 17,
Scratch Acid,
Todd Terry,
The Raincoats,
Desert Stars,
Lungfish,
The Moleskins,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Osbourne,
OOIOO,
Soft Cell,
Quadrant,
Fluxion,
Swans,
Aloha Tigers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Section 25,
The Gun Club,
Minnie Riperton,
Lightning Bolt,
Malaria!,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Zero Boys,
Lou Reed,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Josef K,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Gang of Four,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hoover,
Toni Rubio,
Public Enemy,
Popol Vuh,
Roger Hodgson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fad Gadget,
JFA,
Avey Tare,
Public Image Ltd.,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flipper,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.