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 Denmark and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Archie Shepp,
Lucky Dragons,
Q65,
Grey Daturas,
Niagra,
One Last Wish,
Boz Scaggs,
The Moleskins,
Joensuu 1685,
Magma,
DJ Sneak,
Guru Guru,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Happenings,
Eden Ahbez,
Drexciya,
Black Sheep,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang Gang Dance,
Andrew Hill,
Colin Newman,
Rhythm & Sound,
Outsiders,
Adolescents,
New York Dolls,
Sparks,
Peter and Kerry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Blossom Toes,
Das Ding,
Anakelly,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
The Walker Brothers,
The Dead C,
Rotary Connection,
Y Pants,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dorothy Ashby,
Charles Mingus,
Cal Tjader,
Pylon,
Grauzone,
Minor Threat,
Byron Stingily,
Desert Stars,
Lou Christie,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gap Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Sugar Minott,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Velvet Underground,
Deepchord,
D'Angelo,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Index,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.