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 Korea North and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 David McCallum to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Infiniti,
Soulsonic Force,
Newcleus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sound Behaviour,
This Heat,
Severed Heads,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marvin Gaye,
Quadrant,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed,
Jerry's Kids,
Quantec,
CMW,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Schoolly D,
Reuben Wilson,
Echospace,
JFA,
Bush Tetras,
Man Parrish,
Organ,
Mars,
Davy DMX,
The Tremeloes,
John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
LL Cool J,
Tres Demented,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Lynne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Blancmange,
Con Funk Shun,
John Foxx,
Minny Pops,
Harmonia,
Popol Vuh,
Motorama,
MC5,
Matthew Halsall,
Rod Modell,
Franke,
Pylon,
Wasted Youth,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Albert Ayler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David Axelrod,
Skaos,
Theoretical Girls,
Eli Mardock,
The Names,
Rhythm & Sound,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.