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 Palau and from New York.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Radiopuhelimet to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
The Gladiators,
Negative Approach,
Pharoah Sanders,
New York Dolls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jeru the Damaja,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Electric Prunes,
Sparks,
The Cure,
The Fire Engines,
Panda Bear,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Anakelly,
Sonic Youth,
Marine Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Pere Ubu,
Malaria!,
Pole,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Little Man,
Jacques Brel,
Subhumans,
cv313,
Agent Orange,
Scrapy,
Warsaw,
Dave Gahan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scientists,
The Blues Magoos,
F. McDonald,
Sandy B,
Wire,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Womack,
Banda Bassotti,
Magazine,
Sugar Minott,
David Axelrod,
Dual Sessions,
Bob Dylan,
Flash Fearless,
Sound Behaviour,
Television Personalities,
Vladislav Delay,
Fluxion,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Silicon Teens,
Crispian St. Peters,
Oneida,
Anthony Braxton,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.