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 Macedonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Interpol to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Monolake,
Sight & Sound,
Oblivians,
Funky Four + One,
Country Teasers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Almond,
Connie Case,
The Monochrome Set,
Gichy Dan,
Stiv Bators,
The Neon Judgement,
DJ Style,
U.S. Maple,
The Gladiators,
Easy Going,
The Move,
Zero Boys,
The Cure,
Surgeon,
Robert Hood,
Yazoo,
Lower 48,
Yaz,
Outsiders,
David Bowie,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dennis Brown,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
Arab on Radar,
Clear Light,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
FM Einheit,
Warsaw,
Don Cherry,
Sound Behaviour,
Groovy Waters,
Eve St. Jones,
Roxette,
The Dead C,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Matthew Bourne,
Gong,
Jacques Brel,
The United States of America,
The Blues Magoos,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Anakelly,
Symarip,
Public Image Ltd.,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.