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 Algeria and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Cybotron to the rock 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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
JFA,
Brass Construction,
Nils Olav,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Massinfluence,
The Move,
Sparks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Durutti Column,
Kurtis Blow,
MDC,
The Blackbyrds,
The Human League,
The Skatalites,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pagans,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Green,
Echospace,
The Victims,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Saints,
Dawn Penn,
Monolake,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ponytail,
The Red Krayola,
Erasure,
Liliput,
The Fire Engines,
Marine Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Halsall,
Terry Callier,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Josef K,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Procol Harum,
Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reagan Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radio Birdman,
Donny Hathaway,
Visage,
Los Fastidios,
Danielle Patucci,
Theoretical Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Easy Going,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.