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 Oman and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Au Pairs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Busters. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
X-101,
Sun City Girls,
The Dead C,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mission of Burma,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Con Funk Shun,
Suburban Knight,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Pretty Things,
Eurythmics,
Gang Starr,
Girls At Our Best!,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alison Limerick,
Altered Images,
Funky Four + One,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
Grauzone,
Erasure,
Wally Richardson,
Supertramp,
DJ Style,
The Fuzztones,
Index,
Alice Coltrane,
The J.B.'s,
E-Dancer,
Das Ding,
H. Thieme,
Desert Stars,
Jeff Lynne,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marmalade,
Nico,
Boredoms,
Pagans,
Basic Channel,
Dual Sessions,
Tears for Fears,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare,
Dawn Penn,
Cybotron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Babytalk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Morten Harket,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.