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 Burundi and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord 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 Godley & Creme to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Avey Tare,
Goldenarms,
Monolake,
Flash Fearless,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
The Gladiators,
Hashim,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Half Japanese,
Jandek,
The Leaves,
Lightning Bolt,
The Tremeloes,
Fatback Band,
Camouflage,
Nirvana,
Parry Music,
Ultravox,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sister Nancy,
Rekid,
New Order,
Quando Quango,
This Heat,
The Buckinghams,
Eli Mardock,
Radiohead,
LL Cool J,
Fugazi,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Sheep,
Max Romeo,
The Gories,
Adolescents,
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Cybotron,
Duran Duran,
DJ Sneak,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Newcleus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Cowsills,
Eric B and Rakim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aural Exciters,
Circle Jerks,
Symarip,
Saccharine Trust,
Stereo Dub,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.