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 Libya and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Donald Fagen 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 Das Ding to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Kas Product,
Patti Smith,
DJ Style,
Accadde A,
The Evens,
Crime,
the Normal,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Shoche,
Lyres,
Derrick Morgan,
Throbbing Gristle,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
June Days,
A Certain Ratio,
Barbara Tucker,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nico,
Kaleidoscope,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scrapy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Residents,
Steve Hackett,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dual Sessions,
Tim Buckley,
The Dirtbombs,
Nick Fraelich,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Pus,
Juan Atkins,
Nirvana,
The Mummies,
Vladislav Delay,
Nik Kershaw,
John Holt,
Ultra Naté,
The Last Poets,
Lou Christie,
Scan 7,
Ultravox,
PIL,
MC5,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Moon,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Sheep,
The Mojo Men,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Animal Collective,
Faraquet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.