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 Spain and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Scott Walker to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed,
The Divine Comedy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tears for Fears,
Dennis Brown,
Derrick Morgan,
Au Pairs,
L. Decosne,
Aural Exciters,
The American Breed,
Eric B and Rakim,
David McCallum,
June Days,
Barbara Tucker,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Sneak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brothers Johnson,
Easy Going,
Jeff Mills,
Newcleus,
Mandrill,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
The Pop Group,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-102,
Thompson Twins,
Bootsy Collins,
Can,
Anthony Braxton,
Arab on Radar,
Aswad,
The Seeds,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlback,
Livin' Joy,
Tres Demented,
Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
The Angels of Light,
Sonic Youth,
10cc,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Silicon Teens,
Franke,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Cowsills,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.