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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Music Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Bill Near,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Hill,
Vainqueur,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
cv313,
Little Man,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
Depeche Mode,
Erykah Badu,
Matthew Halsall,
Radiohead,
Model 500,
Adolescents,
Tim Buckley,
Quantec,
Gong,
Lalann,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Audionom,
The Cramps,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rod Modell,
Eddi Front,
UT,
Siglo XX,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
These Immortal Souls,
Qualms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
One Last Wish,
Aaron Thompson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nico,
Von Mondo,
Drive Like Jehu,
KRS-One,
Public Image Ltd.,
Theoretical Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
X-Ray Spex,
Sparks,
Groovy Waters,
Index,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gun Club,
Ultravox,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Metal Thangz,
Danielle Patucci,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.