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 Qatar and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Delhi and Philadelphia.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Cosmic Jokers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Yellowson,
L. Decosne,
Fluxion,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Fall,
Mandrill,
Eddi Front,
Oneida,
Jesper Dahlback,
Johnny Clarke,
Delta 5,
a-ha,
Goldenarms,
Nils Olav,
the Germs,
Kas Product,
Shuggie Otis,
The Happenings,
Funky Four + One,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mojo Men,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick Morgan,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Pretty Things,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Moleskins,
Urselle,
the Soft Cell,
The Leaves,
the Slits,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Avey Tare,
Reagan Youth,
Rufus Thomas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Amazonics,
Nick Fraelich,
Marmalade,
Absolute Body Control,
Essential Logic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Talk Talk,
Dave Gahan,
Ronan,
Letta Mbulu,
Spandau Ballet,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
Josef K,
Smog,
Tubeway Army,
The American Breed,
Sight & Sound,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.