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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ronan,
Roger Hodgson,
The Real Kids,
Talk Talk,
Desert Stars,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
Toni Rubio,
The Knickerbockers,
Jerry's Kids,
Zero Boys,
Bluetip,
Bang On A Can,
The Red Krayola,
Thompson Twins,
The Gun Club,
Groovy Waters,
The Moleskins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sparks,
Radiohead,
Nik Kershaw,
Hashim,
Grauzone,
Von Mondo,
Kenny Larkin,
Connie Case,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stetsasonic,
Sällskapet,
New Age Steppers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pagans,
Jeff Lynne,
Ituana,
The Litter,
The Cramps,
Dennis Brown,
The Dirtbombs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Country Teasers,
The Fuzztones,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Electric Prunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Pop Group,
David McCallum,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deadbeat,
Lalann,
The Remains,
John Foxx,
Kevin Saunderson,
The American Breed,
Scan 7,
Rapeman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.