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 France and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jeff Lynne to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
The Smiths,
a-ha,
The Wake,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fatback Band,
Bauhaus,
The Beau Brummels,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pagans,
Anakelly,
Fugazi,
The Evens,
Adolescents,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mark Hollis,
Lungfish,
Nico,
The Divine Comedy,
Josef K,
Black Flag,
Interpol,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gong,
10cc,
Kas Product,
Soul II Soul,
Infiniti,
The Zeros,
Bobby Sherman,
Matthew Bourne,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sonics,
The Names,
DNA,
Swell Maps,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Y Pants,
Hasil Adkins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Neu!,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Sheep,
Fat Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Pere Ubu,
Deepchord,
Q and Not U,
Shuggie Otis,
The Remains,
The Cramps,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Au Pairs,
Black Bananas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rotary Connection,
Cybotron,
Lou Christie,
The Doors,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Arcadia,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.