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 Latvia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bauhaus to the rock 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears 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 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz 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?
Letta Mbulu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anthony Braxton,
DNA,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quadrant,
Girls At Our Best!,
Toni Rubio,
Glenn Branca,
kango's stein massive,
Junior Murvin,
Masters at Work,
Black Flag,
Malaria!,
Tubeway Army,
Joy Division,
Lightning Bolt,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
Joe Finger,
Shuggie Otis,
Talk Talk,
Organ,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bad Manners,
Au Pairs,
Soulsonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
Ossler,
The Buckinghams,
The Human League,
Rufus Thomas,
Rapeman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
La Düsseldorf,
Nirvana,
Darondo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yusef Lateef,
The Motions,
Judy Mowatt,
Pulsallama,
Colin Newman,
Jerry's Kids,
The Leaves,
Depeche Mode,
Fat Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Swans,
Rakim,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Neon Judgement,
Gastr Del Sol,
Q and Not U,
the Normal,
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.