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 Colombia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scion to the dance 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Todd Terry,
Slave,
The Gories,
The Names,
Symarip,
Goldenarms,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sällskapet,
Thee Headcoats,
Skarface,
Rites of Spring,
the Germs,
Severed Heads,
Junior Murvin,
Sun City Girls,
Accadde A,
B.T. Express,
H. Thieme,
Radiopuhelimet,
PIL,
Scrapy,
Soulsonic Force,
Little Man,
cv313,
Derrick Morgan,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
The Sound,
Main Source,
Trumans Water,
Con Funk Shun,
Magma,
Delta 5,
DNA,
Nik Kershaw,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Animal Collective,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Guru Guru,
The Motions,
Harmonia,
Nico,
Lakeside,
Crash Course in Science,
Kas Product,
Prince Buster,
Soul Sonic Force,
Youth Brigade,
Procol Harum,
The Music Machine,
X-101,
The American Breed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Offenders,
Scott Walker,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.