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 New Zealand and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tom Boy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pylon,
Duran Duran,
Soft Cell,
The Sound,
Vainqueur,
Gong,
Eric Copeland,
Aswad,
Warsaw,
Pantaleimon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Wasted Youth,
David Bowie,
Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Dennis Brown,
Bizarre Inc.,
X-101,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skaos,
Althea and Donna,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marvin Gaye,
Drive Like Jehu,
Michelle Simonal,
Yazoo,
Unrelated Segments,
Scientists,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Happenings,
Supertramp,
R.M.O.,
Dave Gahan,
Sparks,
Cheater Slicks,
Joy Division,
Rekid,
Tim Buckley,
X-102,
Archie Shepp,
Symarip,
The Cure,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Invisible,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bob Dylan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blake Baxter,
Visage,
Delta 5,
Charles Mingus,
The Buckinghams,
Yaz,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.