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 Greece and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
The Pop Group,
Little Man,
Amon Düül II,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Dead C,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Maleditus Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Davy DMX,
The Gories,
Jeff Lynne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skaos,
Leonard Cohen,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
The Invisible,
Organ,
Fluxion,
Ten City,
Hot Snakes,
The Mummies,
Amon Düül,
H. Thieme,
Toni Rubio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Icehouse,
Lungfish,
The Leaves,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joey Negro,
Panda Bear,
The Martian,
David Axelrod,
Bluetip,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Christie,
PIL,
The Stooges,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jerry's Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mo-Dettes,
The Durutti Column,
Jesper Dahlback,
Circle Jerks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hasil Adkins,
Tommy Roe,
Excepter,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers,
Carl Craig,
Bill Near,
Roxy Music,
The Beau Brummels,
Alphaville,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.