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 Antigua and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lalann to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed,
The Star Department,
Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quantec,
Ponytail,
Stockholm Monsters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gong,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Massinfluence,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Section 25,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Little Man,
R.M.O.,
Robert Wyatt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Godley & Creme,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pantytec,
Sparks,
Tom Boy,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick Morgan,
Flipper,
Charles Mingus,
Anakelly,
June of 44,
Connie Case,
The Fortunes,
Derrick May,
The Monks,
The Buckinghams,
Bush Tetras,
Vladislav Delay,
Alphaville,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
Pylon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barbara Tucker,
Pierre Henry,
The Fire Engines,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Zeros,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Moody Blues,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal,
U.S. Maple,
Sex Pistols,
EPMD,
Nico,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.