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 Equatorial Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Silicon Teens to the funk 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
The Neon Judgement,
Eve St. Jones,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
The Cramps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Liliput,
Bob Dylan,
Brass Construction,
The Smoke,
Newcleus,
Black Sheep,
Buzzcocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eli Mardock,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris & Cosey,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Leonard Cohen,
Y Pants,
Sun City Girls,
Yellowson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wings,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nik Kershaw,
The Monochrome Set,
Royal Trux,
Pierre Henry,
ABC,
Connie Case,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
Alton Ellis,
The Mummies,
Pantaleimon,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Buckinghams,
Public Enemy,
The Music Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sixth Finger,
Peter and Kerry,
kango's stein massive,
Marine Girls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Index,
Gichy Dan,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.