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 Micronesia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator 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 This Heat to the grunge 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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Janne Schatter,
Khruangbin,
Eddi Front,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Misunderstood,
The Pretty Things,
Camouflage,
Infiniti,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joensuu 1685,
Dave Gahan,
Thee Headcoats,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Green,
Robert Görl,
Country Teasers,
David McCallum,
Eurythmics,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lungfish,
Babytalk,
Marvin Gaye,
The Monochrome Set,
Y Pants,
Johnny Clarke,
Pet Shop Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Smoke,
Drive Like Jehu,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scion,
Siglo XX,
Matthew Bourne,
Minor Threat,
The Young Rascals,
Radiohead,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sister Nancy,
Nils Olav,
the Swans,
Stiv Bators,
Pantytec,
Fat Boys,
The Fortunes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
Jacob Miller,
Pere Ubu,
Magazine,
DJ Style,
Sight & Sound,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.