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 Poland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Brand Nubian to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Pop Group,
JFA,
Half Japanese,
Gabor Szabo,
Duran Duran,
Dave Gahan,
Altered Images,
E-Dancer,
Sandy B,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Görl,
Derrick May,
Jeff Lynne,
the Swans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alphaville,
The Red Krayola,
Sarah Menescal,
Jeff Mills,
DJ Style,
The Leaves,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Erykah Badu,
Aloha Tigers,
Jerry's Kids,
The Buckinghams,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gories,
Vladislav Delay,
Grey Daturas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kenny Larkin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Freddie Wadling,
Moss Icon,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Monochrome Set,
Royal Trux,
Wally Richardson,
Nick Fraelich,
Anakelly,
The Fall,
Drexciya,
Peter & Gordon,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Womack,
D'Angelo,
Organ,
Jerry Gold Smith,
David Bowie,
Au Pairs,
Negative Approach,
Boredoms,
L. Decosne,
Smog,
Skaos,
Franke,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.