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 Kyrgyzstan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Trumans Water,
Cybotron,
Subhumans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marvin Gaye,
8 Eyed Spy,
Alphaville,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Groovy Waters,
The Tremeloes,
Youth Brigade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deepchord,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Depeche Mode,
Jeff Lynne,
Byron Stingily,
Sex Pistols,
Kool Moe Dee,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Howard Jones,
Sparks,
New Age Steppers,
Funky Four + One,
Fela Kuti,
Donny Hathaway,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terry Callier,
Saccharine Trust,
Tommy Roe,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Agitation Free,
Tears for Fears,
The Happenings,
Yusef Lateef,
Funkadelic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fad Gadget,
Con Funk Shun,
Janne Schatter,
Judy Mowatt,
Faraquet,
The Fall,
New Order,
Whodini,
June Days,
Scion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mr. Review,
The Fuzztones,
Brothers Johnson,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nick Fraelich,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.