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 Bolivia and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 World's Most to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Banda Bassotti,
The Monochrome Set,
Groovy Waters,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Bourne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Moon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Adolescents,
Drexciya,
Tubeway Army,
Liliput,
Slave,
Joe Smooth,
Lyres,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Robert Hood,
JFA,
Jacques Brel,
Youth Brigade,
Sixth Finger,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lungfish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Leaves,
Lucky Dragons,
The Names,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ice-T,
Siglo XX,
Skarface,
Steve Hackett,
the Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Yellowson,
Nico,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
Accadde A,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grey Daturas,
Mission of Burma,
Khruangbin,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
Judy Mowatt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
Archie Shepp,
OOIOO,
Derrick May,
Aswad,
Chrome,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bauhaus,
Rosa Yemen,
Roger Hodgson,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.