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 Romania and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Liliput to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
One Last Wish,
Monolake,
The Electric Prunes,
Accadde A,
Letta Mbulu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Infiniti,
Outsiders,
10cc,
Idris Muhammad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Slackers,
Wasted Youth,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
John Foxx,
Scion,
The Evens,
Swans,
Tommy Roe,
The Offenders,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
This Heat,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Blues Magoos,
Pole,
Wire,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Görl,
Icehouse,
Marvin Gaye,
KRS-One,
the Sonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Motions,
Lightning Bolt,
Depeche Mode,
The Blackbyrds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pantytec,
The Techniques,
Flipper,
New Age Steppers,
Smog,
Dead Boys,
the Normal,
Rotary Connection,
Bronski Beat,
Anakelly,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thee Headcoats,
Man Parrish,
Parry Music,
Graham Central Station,
Ken Boothe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.