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 Indonesia and from Beijing.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ronan to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mission of Burma,
Crooked Eye,
Gong,
Kaleidoscope,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Derrick May,
Moss Icon,
Heaven 17,
The Human League,
Nas,
Arcadia,
The Techniques,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Residents,
Ponytail,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fuzztones,
Eddi Front,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
The Associates,
The Five Americans,
Rotary Connection,
Brick,
Donny Hathaway,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lower 48,
Rufus Thomas,
Scientists,
D'Angelo,
John Lydon,
Wings,
Scratch Acid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Neon Judgement,
Dark Day,
Intrusion,
The Real Kids,
Boredoms,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Smog,
Soulsonic Force,
Brass Construction,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Piero Umiliani,
Barclay James Harvest,
Warren Ellis,
Quadrant,
Zapp,
Zero Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
B.T. Express,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
The Fortunes,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.