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 Palau and from Copenhagen.
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 Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 theremin 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 Half Japanese to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
The Black Dice,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rotary Connection,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roxette,
EPMD,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Motorama,
The Dave Clark Five,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tim Buckley,
Depeche Mode,
Eden Ahbez,
Rites of Spring,
Fatback Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Modern Lovers,
Blancmange,
Whodini,
Sarah Menescal,
The American Breed,
Angry Samoans,
Loose Ends,
The United States of America,
Lower 48,
Mad Mike,
PIL,
Thompson Twins,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fluxion,
Underground Resistance,
Urselle,
Nas,
Siglo XX,
Public Enemy,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun City Girls,
June of 44,
Kurtis Blow,
Mark Hollis,
Babytalk,
Theoretical Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Gong,
Junior Murvin,
Bang On A Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Sherman,
Second Layer,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Dead C,
Moebius,
Chris & Cosey,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.