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 Slovenia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter and Kerry to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids 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?
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Kas Product,
Godley & Creme,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
The Motions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Zapp,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bronski Beat,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Neil Young,
Das Ding,
John Cale,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick May,
the Association,
Scan 7,
Model 500,
Ornette Coleman,
Connie Case,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dennis Brown,
Malaria!,
Stiv Bators,
Skriet,
Y Pants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kaleidoscope,
Suicide,
Lyres,
DNA,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
One Last Wish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neu!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brothers Johnson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Leonard Cohen,
Marvin Gaye,
In Retrospect,
Cymande,
Mission of Burma,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
Yusef Lateef,
Ultravox,
Jawbox,
Zero Boys,
Half Japanese,
Traffic Nightmare,
Prince Buster,
Amazonics,
Porter Ricks,
CMW,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.