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 Maldives and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Zero Boys to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Offenders,
Bang On A Can,
The Fire Engines,
LL Cool J,
Metal Thangz,
New York Dolls,
Silicon Teens,
Black Sheep,
Au Pairs,
Ken Boothe,
Darondo,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed,
The Smiths,
Peter and Kerry,
Simply Red,
The Music Machine,
Pagans,
John Foxx,
Grauzone,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tom Boy,
Laurel Aitken,
One Last Wish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kurtis Blow,
Aural Exciters,
Lower 48,
Amon Düül,
Soul II Soul,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cymande,
Althea and Donna,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Henry Cow,
Faust,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Parry Music,
Y Pants,
Dave Gahan,
Radio Birdman,
Swell Maps,
The Buckinghams,
Youth Brigade,
Audionom,
Basic Channel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Zeros,
Fat Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Delta 5,
Zapp,
48th St. Collective,
Oneida,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.