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 Ethiopia and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Monolake to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hasil Adkins,
Deadbeat,
Radiohead,
Nick Fraelich,
Can,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stereo Dub,
Adolescents,
New Order,
Jeff Lynne,
The Pop Group,
the Slits,
The American Breed,
Scientists,
Roxy Music,
Avey Tare,
Aaron Thompson,
the Human League,
The Techniques,
Talk Talk,
Black Bananas,
June of 44,
Intrusion,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tubeway Army,
The Martian,
Brothers Johnson,
Todd Terry,
U.S. Maple,
Bootsy Collins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Lydon,
The Move,
Fluxion,
The Sound,
Hoover,
Gerry Rafferty,
Derrick Morgan,
Zero Boys,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Isaac Hayes,
June Days,
Kaleidoscope,
Lee Hazlewood,
KRS-One,
Bronski Beat,
Pulsallama,
Slave,
The Standells,
Wally Richardson,
The Skatalites,
T. Rex,
Eric Copeland,
OOIOO,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
L. Decosne,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.