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 Ivory Coast and from Milan.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rod Modell to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
Aloha Tigers,
The Buckinghams,
Au Pairs,
Brand Nubian,
Fluxion,
Interpol,
Banda Bassotti,
The United States of America,
Easy Going,
Ken Boothe,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sonics,
The Cramps,
The Doors,
Sly & The Family Stone,
ABC,
Jeff Mills,
Maleditus Sound,
Quando Quango,
Sound Behaviour,
Bad Manners,
Marc Almond,
The Fortunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ponytail,
One Last Wish,
Yellowson,
Cluster,
The Techniques,
Television,
Mission of Burma,
the Swans,
The Toasters,
Bootsy Collins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Evens,
Blancmange,
Dark Day,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tommy Roe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Andrew Hill,
Ultra Naté,
DNA,
Inner City,
Reuben Wilson,
The Move,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Althea and Donna,
UT,
Goldenarms,
Arab on Radar,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bill Wells,
Jesper Dahlback,
Basic Channel,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.