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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marcia Griffiths to the rock 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Parry Music,
Simply Red,
Anakelly,
Gregory Isaacs,
Robert Görl,
Pantaleimon,
Roxy Music,
Roger Hodgson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bootsy Collins,
Unwound,
The Sonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Porter Ricks,
Ornette Coleman,
Godley & Creme,
Crispy Ambulance,
Japan,
John Coltrane,
Surgeon,
Flamin' Groovies,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joey Negro,
Bizarre Inc.,
FM Einheit,
The Vogues,
Visage,
Harmonia,
Magma,
New York Dolls,
Rakim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ituana,
Sandy B,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Gap Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marc Almond,
Jeff Lynne,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joe Finger,
Kas Product,
B.T. Express,
David Axelrod,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Judy Mowatt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Organ,
Ohio Players,
F. McDonald,
Dual Sessions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Altered Images,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
Barbara Tucker,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.