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 Bulgaria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 ABC to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Michelle Simonal,
Tres Demented,
The Gladiators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aaron Thompson,
Fluxion,
Crash Course in Science,
Kenny Larkin,
Ken Boothe,
Cameo,
Anthony Braxton,
Ralphi Rosario,
cv313,
Black Moon,
John Lydon,
Symarip,
Rapeman,
The Real Kids,
Lucky Dragons,
Agitation Free,
Tubeway Army,
Josef K,
Chrome,
Television,
Bill Wells,
Icehouse,
Don Cherry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
Throbbing Gristle,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moody Blues,
Echospace,
Fear,
Malaria!,
The Barracudas,
Bobby Sherman,
The Blackbyrds,
The American Breed,
Dead Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Pere Ubu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Porter Ricks,
DJ Style,
Ultravox,
The Beau Brummels,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Walker Brothers,
The Residents,
Minor Threat,
Jeff Lynne,
Marine Girls,
48th St. Collective,
Rod Modell,
China Crisis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.