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 Saudi Arabia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Thompson Twins to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
David McCallum,
Aaron Thompson,
Con Funk Shun,
John Foxx,
Quando Quango,
Babytalk,
Gang Starr,
Peter & Gordon,
Danielle Patucci,
T. Rex,
Nation of Ulysses,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gong,
Icehouse,
Negative Approach,
Kas Product,
Animal Collective,
Mars,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Techniques,
Scion,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Associates,
A Certain Ratio,
Tommy Roe,
Pagans,
Magma,
Delon & Dalcan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Suicide,
Howard Jones,
Neil Young,
David Axelrod,
Althea and Donna,
Roy Ayers,
H. Thieme,
Brass Construction,
Charles Mingus,
Kool Moe Dee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ossler,
Shoche,
The Blues Magoos,
Boz Scaggs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sonic Youth,
Mission of Burma,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oblivians,
Dark Day,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Morten Harket,
Bronski Beat,
The Birthday Party,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gladiators,
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.