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 Nauru and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dave Gahan to the rap 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Zeros,
Buzzcocks,
The Monochrome Set,
John Lydon,
Delta 5,
Rapeman,
Hashim,
H. Thieme,
The J.B.'s,
The Shadows of Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
The Five Americans,
Iggy Pop,
Television Personalities,
Donny Hathaway,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bauhaus,
Neil Young,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Beau Brummels,
Minnie Riperton,
Crispian St. Peters,
Connie Case,
Jeff Mills,
Sun Ra,
Al Stewart,
Unrelated Segments,
The Buckinghams,
Metal Thangz,
Oblivians,
Sly & The Family Stone,
K-Klass,
ABBA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boogie Down Productions,
Groovy Waters,
LL Cool J,
Fluxion,
Kas Product,
Scrapy,
The Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Warren Ellis,
Howard Jones,
CMW,
Los Fastidios,
Technova,
Ultravox,
Brothers Johnson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smoke,
Joy Division,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.