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 Tonga and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 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 Roy Ayers to the techno 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Motions,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Cymande,
Alison Limerick,
Patti Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Japan,
Rotary Connection,
Traffic Nightmare,
Organ,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Arab on Radar,
The Five Americans,
Thompson Twins,
Prince Buster,
The Doobie Brothers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mad Mike,
Supertramp,
Warren Ellis,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bad Manners,
Smog,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Morten Harket,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dennis Brown,
The Detroit Cobras,
Swell Maps,
Tom Boy,
Qualms,
Tubeway Army,
Derrick Morgan,
The Searchers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Copeland,
The Standells,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun City Girls,
Soft Machine,
L. Decosne,
Freddie Wadling,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arthur Verocai,
Slave,
Hardrive,
Sound Behaviour,
Altered Images,
The Raincoats,
the Swans,
Moebius,
Crooked Eye,
Cluster,
David Bowie,
Cameo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.