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 Niger and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Mo-Dettes,
Jawbox,
Neil Young,
Public Enemy,
Malaria!,
Subhumans,
Marc Almond,
The Move,
kango's stein massive,
Peter and Kerry,
Donny Hathaway,
Tom Boy,
Brothers Johnson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Alison Limerick,
The Real Kids,
E-Dancer,
Lightning Bolt,
Supertramp,
Infiniti,
Robert Wyatt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Davy DMX,
John Holt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Curtis Mayfield,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fad Gadget,
David Bowie,
Radio Birdman,
The Slackers,
Tres Demented,
One Last Wish,
Eve St. Jones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yellowson,
The Fortunes,
The Smoke,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
The Black Dice,
Erasure,
Idris Muhammad,
Television Personalities,
Erykah Badu,
Youth Brigade,
Girls At Our Best!,
The United States of America,
Visage,
Heaven 17,
The Buckinghams,
MC5,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalann,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.