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 Palau and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Red Krayola to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Basic Channel,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Scratch Acid,
Bobby Womack,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Accadde A,
Silicon Teens,
Neil Young,
Kas Product,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The New Christs,
UT,
Mad Mike,
Sound Behaviour,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Delta 5,
Terry Callier,
Aaron Thompson,
The Golliwogs,
T. Rex,
Tom Boy,
Dorothy Ashby,
KRS-One,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
David Bowie,
The Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Absolute Body Control,
Infiniti,
Black Sheep,
Pantytec,
Intrusion,
Wally Richardson,
Eurythmics,
Sällskapet,
Howard Jones,
Rakim,
Maurizio,
Camberwell Now,
The Evens,
Piero Umiliani,
Roxy Music,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Wyatt,
Albert Ayler,
Soft Cell,
Laurel Aitken,
Peter & Gordon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed,
The Trojans,
The Raincoats,
One Last Wish,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.