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 Cameroon and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alphaville to the dance 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Erykah Badu,
Agitation Free,
Bauhaus,
Michelle Simonal,
The Raincoats,
Groovy Waters,
Q65,
Livin' Joy,
The Count Five,
Liliput,
The Fall,
Alton Ellis,
Laurel Aitken,
Rod Modell,
Ohio Players,
Gichy Dan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cluster,
Vladislav Delay,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed,
Erasure,
Skarface,
The Dead C,
The Associates,
Technova,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ultra Naté,
Country Teasers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Style,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Amon Düül II,
Kas Product,
Easy Going,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang of Four,
Gregory Isaacs,
Loose Ends,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alphaville,
Fatback Band,
Eurythmics,
Boz Scaggs,
China Crisis,
Von Mondo,
Warren Ellis,
Maleditus Sound,
Derrick May,
Gang Green,
Pet Shop Boys,
New York Dolls,
Donny Hathaway,
Godley & Creme,
EPMD,
The Gap Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.