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 Finland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Main Source to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Arthur Verocai,
Mark Hollis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Audionom,
The Gories,
Heaven 17,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Loose Ends,
Boredoms,
Animal Collective,
DJ Style,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rites of Spring,
Soft Cell,
Chris Corsano,
Robert Wyatt,
Vladislav Delay,
B.T. Express,
Country Teasers,
Bootsy Collins,
Trumans Water,
The Remains,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marine Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Index,
Judy Mowatt,
DNA,
Gil Scott Heron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Negative Approach,
Whodini,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
The Kinks,
the Swans,
Agent Orange,
Black Moon,
John Cale,
ABBA,
Leonard Cohen,
Skaos,
Robert Hood,
10cc,
The Standells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Warren Ellis,
Bauhaus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Bananas,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Residents,
Scientists,
Yusef Lateef,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
T.S.O.L.,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
The Martian,
Lindisfarne,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.