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 Germany and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dennis Brown to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
Infiniti,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kas Product,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Susan Cadogan,
Echospace,
The Count Five,
The Searchers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Arab on Radar,
The Walker Brothers,
Lyres,
Icehouse,
Lightning Bolt,
Altered Images,
Massinfluence,
Monks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ituana,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Maurizio,
Colin Newman,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Velvet Underground,
Scion,
The Fortunes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Duran Duran,
Blancmange,
Make Up,
Max Romeo,
Theoretical Girls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
David Axelrod,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Holt,
the Normal,
Magazine,
Eli Mardock,
The Associates,
Sugar Minott,
Bad Manners,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skriet,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
a-ha,
Popol Vuh,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
U.S. Maple,
Tears for Fears,
The Cure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Hood,
Sound Behaviour,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.