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 Maldives and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Accra.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 10cc to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
La Düsseldorf,
Nik Kershaw,
Massinfluence,
Camberwell Now,
Simply Red,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Velvet Underground,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Zeros,
Blossom Toes,
The Blackbyrds,
New Order,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Bananas,
Funky Four + One,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Morten Harket,
Peter & Gordon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lungfish,
The Angels of Light,
Neu!,
Flipper,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Sheep,
Section 25,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Gong,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Intrusion,
Grauzone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Sherman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Al Stewart,
Electric Prunes,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
Slick Rick,
Chris & Cosey,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Smog,
EPMD,
Laurel Aitken,
Dennis Brown,
Jeff Lynne,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
Qualms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Royal Trux,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hot Snakes,
The Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sex Pistols,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.