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 Nepal and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Aaron Thompson to the punk 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Searchers,
Silicon Teens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wolf Eyes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Standells,
The Happenings,
the Slits,
Faraquet,
Organ,
Gregory Isaacs,
Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Newcleus,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pole,
David Axelrod,
Donny Hathaway,
Sight & Sound,
Average White Band,
Roxette,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Absolute Body Control,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television Personalities,
Panda Bear,
Reuben Wilson,
Al Stewart,
Mantronix,
The Mojo Men,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joyce Sims,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cluster,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Smoke,
Andrew Hill,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
Dark Day,
Brick,
Terrestrial Tones,
Howard Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Henry Cow,
Duran Duran,
New Order,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
David Bowie,
Colin Newman,
The Selecter,
The Gap Band,
48th St. Collective,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.