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 Paraguay and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Aloha Tigers to the funk 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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Babytalk,
CMW,
Section 25,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hoover,
Erasure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sight & Sound,
The Stooges,
Michelle Simonal,
The Buckinghams,
The Monochrome Set,
Ten City,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cecil Taylor,
Mandrill,
Roxy Music,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
The Moody Blues,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Mummies,
Lalann,
Thompson Twins,
Flash Fearless,
The Divine Comedy,
Tears for Fears,
Ronnie Foster,
Flamin' Groovies,
Little Man,
cv313,
Siglo XX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Flipper,
Suicide,
Kayak,
John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anthony Braxton,
The Doors,
Tim Buckley,
New York Dolls,
Grauzone,
Unrelated Segments,
One Last Wish,
The Victims,
Au Pairs,
The Remains,
The Raincoats,
Jacques Brel,
Carl Craig,
The Martian,
Sun Ra,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Bad Manners,
Henry Cow,
John Foxx,
Visage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.