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 Switzerland and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Crime to the rock 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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Audionom,
Cluster,
Sight & Sound,
The Count Five,
Make Up,
The Motions,
Robert Görl,
Alphaville,
Warren Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lindisfarne,
The Mummies,
Mark Hollis,
The Star Department,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Standells,
Harry Pussy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Susan Cadogan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric Copeland,
Porter Ricks,
Matthew Halsall,
Kerrie Biddell,
Deakin,
Roger Hodgson,
The Divine Comedy,
Althea and Donna,
Boredoms,
The Angels of Light,
The Invisible,
Infiniti,
Pussy Galore,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Con Funk Shun,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nik Kershaw,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Real Kids,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Average White Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pagans,
Minnie Riperton,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yaz,
Jacques Brel,
Underground Resistance,
The Associates,
Interpol,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ice-T,
Organ,
The Pretty Things,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.