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 Sri Lanka and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roxy Music to the punk 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
David McCallum,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Graham Central Station,
Deepchord,
In Retrospect,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Womack,
Gong,
Television Personalities,
The Saints,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Faraquet,
Zero Boys,
The Zeros,
DNA,
Erasure,
Surgeon,
John Foxx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hardrive,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Electric Prunes,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
The Martian,
Black Pus,
The Victims,
The Last Poets,
Faust,
Black Sheep,
Tears for Fears,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eve St. Jones,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cecil Taylor,
Crispy Ambulance,
Moby Grape,
Lindisfarne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Infiniti,
Robert Wyatt,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Moleskins,
The Remains,
Radio Birdman,
Theoretical Girls,
Tim Buckley,
The Angels of Light,
A Certain Ratio,
The Star Department,
Fluxion,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.