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 Ghana and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Stiv Bators,
The Fire Engines,
Sister Nancy,
Television Personalities,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lungfish,
Camberwell Now,
DNA,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Japan,
Scrapy,
Jandek,
Mark Hollis,
Subhumans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bad Manners,
Henry Cow,
Second Layer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lower 48,
F. McDonald,
Ultravox,
Malaria!,
CMW,
Erykah Badu,
PIL,
The Five Americans,
10cc,
Procol Harum,
Amon Düül II,
Letta Mbulu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Swans,
Terry Callier,
Whodini,
Avey Tare,
Chrome,
Isaac Hayes,
Amon Düül,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
Max Romeo,
The Gun Club,
In Retrospect,
ABBA,
Minny Pops,
Symarip,
Sight & Sound,
The Techniques,
Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Offenders,
Carl Craig,
Warren Ellis,
Gong,
Suicide,
Nils Olav,
Dave Gahan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.