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 Nigeria and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Agent Orange to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Dave Gahan,
Archie Shepp,
Depeche Mode,
Derrick May,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Coltrane,
Fat Boys,
ABBA,
Fear,
The Evens,
Ten City,
Icehouse,
Kas Product,
Patti Smith,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Finger,
Jerry's Kids,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yellowson,
Rapeman,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slits,
Dennis Brown,
The J.B.'s,
Pagans,
Model 500,
The Blues Magoos,
Anakelly,
X-101,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha,
Massinfluence,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Royal Trux,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Reed,
Fad Gadget,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pantaleimon,
Donald Byrd,
Zero Boys,
The Victims,
The Residents,
Iggy Pop,
Gang of Four,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tim Buckley,
Subhumans,
DJ Sneak,
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
John Foxx,
the Soft Cell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suburban Knight,
Simply Red,
Wire,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.