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 Chile and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camberwell Now to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dead C,
FM Einheit,
Joey Negro,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roxy Music,
Big Daddy Kane,
Magazine,
The Vogues,
Kevin Saunderson,
Guru Guru,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Selecter,
The Mojo Men,
X-101,
Procol Harum,
Oblivians,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Grey Daturas,
Joyce Sims,
The Standells,
Harry Pussy,
Flash Fearless,
Saccharine Trust,
The Smoke,
Roxette,
The Gladiators,
La Düsseldorf,
Unwound,
Thompson Twins,
U.S. Maple,
Marmalade,
Icehouse,
Faraquet,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Bill Near,
Sound Behaviour,
Lyres,
Erasure,
Sam Rivers,
Hoover,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Stooges,
Camouflage,
The Busters,
Jawbox,
The Golliwogs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Iggy Pop,
EPMD,
Jerry's Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Divine Comedy,
The Modern Lovers,
Arab on Radar,
Vainqueur,
Trumans Water,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.