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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Marine Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Patti Smith,
Visage,
The Walker Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Zero Boys,
Ice-T,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mandrill,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jacques Brel,
Cybotron,
The Beau Brummels,
Ken Boothe,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Procol Harum,
Stiv Bators,
DNA,
Q65,
John Foxx,
Skaos,
the Soft Cell,
Jeff Mills,
Lakeside,
Section 25,
The Fuzztones,
Loose Ends,
Echospace,
Excepter,
the Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
The Smiths,
a-ha,
Franke,
Joe Smooth,
The Gap Band,
PIL,
Alphaville,
The Gun Club,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Pop Group,
The Music Machine,
Ultra Naté,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Womack,
Youth Brigade,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Minny Pops,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.