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 Brunei and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 E-Dancer to the techno 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Television Personalities,
The Flesh Eaters,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra,
The Invisible,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Sheep,
Public Enemy,
Amon Düül,
Soft Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Connie Case,
The Electric Prunes,
Nils Olav,
Chris & Cosey,
Scientists,
the Normal,
Q and Not U,
The Gap Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Silicon Teens,
Dave Gahan,
Lebanon Hanover,
MC5,
The Gories,
Unrelated Segments,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Görl,
Josef K,
Sixth Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Divine Comedy,
Joy Division,
Fluxion,
Ornette Coleman,
The Doors,
Marc Almond,
The Moleskins,
Thee Headcoats,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minny Pops,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Martian,
Darondo,
Desert Stars,
Radiohead,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.