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 Philippines and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Q65 to the grunge 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Almond,
Gichy Dan,
F. McDonald,
Malaria!,
Little Man,
Niagra,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed,
Kerrie Biddell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Johnny Clarke,
John Holt,
Crime,
Fluxion,
Lalann,
The Skatalites,
The Cowsills,
Harry Pussy,
The Remains,
Crooked Eye,
Tres Demented,
The Monochrome Set,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Siglo XX,
The Victims,
Cecil Taylor,
Minnie Riperton,
DNA,
Dave Gahan,
Erykah Badu,
The Star Department,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bush Tetras,
Janne Schatter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Flash Fearless,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sound Behaviour,
Lower 48,
Flipper,
Infiniti,
Peter & Gordon,
Nico,
Soul II Soul,
Unrelated Segments,
Groovy Waters,
the Human League,
Royal Trux,
Eric Copeland,
Joe Finger,
Glenn Branca,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.