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 United States and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ituana to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Happenings,
Dorothy Ashby,
Organ,
FM Einheit,
Lungfish,
Electric Prunes,
Maurizio,
Arthur Verocai,
Aural Exciters,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Germs,
The Mojo Men,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June Days,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultra Naté,
Bronski Beat,
Y Pants,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Can,
Buzzcocks,
Clear Light,
Guru Guru,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
F. McDonald,
New Age Steppers,
Amon Düül,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Five Americans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mantronix,
Whodini,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ken Boothe,
The Black Dice,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New York Dolls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rapeman,
Intrusion,
Technova,
H. Thieme,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
The Selecter,
D'Angelo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.