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 Cape Verde and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Stetsasonic,
Robert Görl,
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quadrant,
Rufus Thomas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
Radio Birdman,
Babytalk,
Erasure,
Bootsy Collins,
Harpers Bizarre,
DJ Sneak,
Frankie Knuckles,
Can,
MC5,
Goldenarms,
AZ,
Al Stewart,
Minny Pops,
Rotary Connection,
The Moleskins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Flipper,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
L. Decosne,
Deadbeat,
Second Layer,
One Last Wish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
The Dirtbombs,
Althea and Donna,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker,
Marine Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Buzzcocks,
Gang Green,
Marmalade,
Crispy Ambulance,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Count Five,
Cymande,
The Gories,
10cc,
Lightning Bolt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Audionom,
Depeche Mode,
Sällskapet,
Peter and Kerry,
Altered Images,
Scan 7,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.