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 Brunei and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Carl Craig to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nik Kershaw,
The Saints,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Heaven 17,
Sixth Finger,
Flipper,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lightning Bolt,
Marmalade,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sonics,
Gerry Rafferty,
DNA,
Gong,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
Pantytec,
The Standells,
The Moody Blues,
Unwound,
The Mummies,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minnie Riperton,
Scratch Acid,
The Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Zeros,
Kurtis Blow,
World's Most,
The Mojo Men,
Roxy Music,
Soft Cell,
Radiopuhelimet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pagans,
Ohio Players,
Crash Course in Science,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pulsallama,
Neu!,
Iggy Pop,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Morten Harket,
The Trojans,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cowsills,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Shoche,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharoah Sanders,
X-102,
Fluxion,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.