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 Fiji and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise 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 X-Ray Spex to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
The Tremeloes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fugs,
Patti Smith,
Radiohead,
John Lydon,
The Dead C,
Boredoms,
Donny Hathaway,
Kerrie Biddell,
Warren Ellis,
Motorama,
Swell Maps,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Royal Trux,
Dennis Brown,
Von Mondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Al Stewart,
Janne Schatter,
Magma,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jeff Lynne,
The Residents,
Vladislav Delay,
The New Christs,
The Mojo Men,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joyce Sims,
F. McDonald,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Deakin,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Average White Band,
Japan,
Basic Channel,
Gang Starr,
Moebius,
Camberwell Now,
T. Rex,
Thee Headcoats,
Livin' Joy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wally Richardson,
Deepchord,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Amon Düül II,
Newcleus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
a-ha,
Morten Harket,
The Martian,
Blancmange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.