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 Japan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amazonics to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Rhythm & Sound,
Interpol,
Agitation Free,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hoover,
Black Sheep,
Roy Ayers,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Association,
Bill Wells,
The Dirtbombs,
Lucky Dragons,
Tommy Roe,
Depeche Mode,
Visage,
the Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
kango's stein massive,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Trojans,
Grauzone,
Derrick Morgan,
Bobby Sherman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bizarre Inc.,
Warren Ellis,
Soul II Soul,
Faraquet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pulsallama,
R.M.O.,
Brass Construction,
Delta 5,
Television Personalities,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cluster,
Kerri Chandler,
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül,
Monolake,
The Offenders,
New Order,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roger Hodgson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lungfish,
The Count Five,
The Cowsills,
Echospace,
Zero Boys,
Fear,
The Move,
Massinfluence,
Symarip,
Amon Düül II,
Parry Music,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Au Pairs,
Nas,
La Düsseldorf,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.