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 Paraguay and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lakeside to the disco 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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne 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?
Bobby Byrd,
Johnny Clarke,
T. Rex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Maleditus Sound,
Kenny Larkin,
Davy DMX,
This Heat,
Babytalk,
Desert Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Radiohead,
Amon Düül II,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
China Crisis,
48th St. Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
Tropical Tobacco,
David McCallum,
The Grass Roots,
The American Breed,
Swans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Supertramp,
John Holt,
Cameo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
One Last Wish,
Outsiders,
Intrusion,
Roxy Music,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Slits,
Ultravox,
ABBA,
Slave,
Warsaw,
Brothers Johnson,
Silicon Teens,
Infiniti,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cluster,
Carl Craig,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jacob Miller,
Monolake,
The Saints,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Spoonie Gee,
Thompson Twins,
Derrick Morgan,
Idris Muhammad,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Franke,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fela Kuti,
The Martian,
The Leaves,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.