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 Mauritania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Doobie Brothers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Symarip,
Lou Reed,
The Black Dice,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Radiohead,
These Immortal Souls,
Index,
The Neon Judgement,
The Dirtbombs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dawn Penn,
Adolescents,
Con Funk Shun,
Ponytail,
Siglo XX,
The Trojans,
Mission of Burma,
The Durutti Column,
Arcadia,
Amazonics,
Half Japanese,
Sällskapet,
Rufus Thomas,
Amon Düül II,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Basic Channel,
Flash Fearless,
Underground Resistance,
Popol Vuh,
Boz Scaggs,
Malaria!,
Gerry Rafferty,
Accadde A,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fugs,
Arab on Radar,
Fear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
Isaac Hayes,
Jeff Lynne,
Moby Grape,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
F. McDonald,
KRS-One,
Mary Jane Girls,
X-102,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sight & Sound,
The Invisible,
Black Moon,
Yaz,
Black Pus,
Andrew Hill,
T. Rex,
Man Parrish,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.