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 Azerbaijan and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Deepchord to the techno 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Names,
Camberwell Now,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Music Machine,
Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Monolake,
Howard Jones,
Black Pus,
Vainqueur,
Dave Gahan,
Iggy Pop,
Gang Green,
Eurythmics,
Japan,
Ultravox,
Ossler,
Reuben Wilson,
Desert Stars,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
New York Dolls,
CMW,
The Velvet Underground,
cv313,
Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
The Fire Engines,
The Remains,
Shuggie Otis,
Flipper,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quantec,
UT,
X-102,
Brass Construction,
Little Man,
Lalann,
Hot Snakes,
Althea and Donna,
Tropical Tobacco,
China Crisis,
Goldenarms,
The Evens,
Hoover,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
June of 44,
The Grass Roots,
The Seeds,
Fear,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blossom Toes,
Lungfish,
Amazonics,
Kaleidoscope,
Eddi Front,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pantaleimon,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.