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 St Lucia and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin 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 Alphaville to the funk 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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Magma,
David McCallum,
The Searchers,
Pole,
Tomorrow,
Glenn Branca,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Halsall,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Standells,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Slackers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Barbara Tucker,
Colin Newman,
The Zeros,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The United States of America,
Skaos,
Rufus Thomas,
Mission of Burma,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scratch Acid,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Absolute Body Control,
Gong,
Harpers Bizarre,
48th St. Collective,
Ten City,
Marine Girls,
Vladislav Delay,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hardrive,
Maleditus Sound,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Christie,
Graham Central Station,
Second Layer,
Joey Negro,
Wolf Eyes,
Camberwell Now,
Bill Near,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jacques Brel,
Qualms,
the Soft Cell,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.