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 Serbia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Saccharine Trust 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Five Americans,
Minnie Riperton,
Byron Stingily,
The Count Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ituana,
Quantec,
The Blues Magoos,
Nirvana,
Mantronix,
Sun Ra,
Technova,
The Fortunes,
The Music Machine,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kayak,
Godley & Creme,
The Index,
David Bowie,
Animal Collective,
Bob Dylan,
Erykah Badu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
FM Einheit,
Reagan Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Beau Brummels,
Frankie Knuckles,
Letta Mbulu,
a-ha,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
Royal Trux,
UT,
Hardrive,
Absolute Body Control,
Flamin' Groovies,
DNA,
AZ,
A Certain Ratio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris & Cosey,
Tubeway Army,
Intrusion,
Deepchord,
The Leaves,
Skriet,
The Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gabor Szabo,
Scientists,
The Happenings,
The Buckinghams,
JFA,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.