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 Suriname and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Colin Newman to the disco 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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nirvana,
Young Marble Giants,
Sällskapet,
Janne Schatter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cecil Taylor,
Crooked Eye,
Rekid,
Donny Hathaway,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joe Finger,
Ken Boothe,
Whodini,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispian St. Peters,
Severed Heads,
Radiohead,
The Zeros,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
EPMD,
Matthew Bourne,
Quantec,
The Happenings,
The Fire Engines,
Tommy Roe,
The Five Americans,
Eli Mardock,
Amon Düül II,
Section 25,
X-101,
Ronan,
Simply Red,
Cluster,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Duran Duran,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Durutti Column,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Monks,
Tomorrow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobby Byrd,
Minutemen,
David Bowie,
The Fortunes,
Essential Logic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Girls At Our Best!,
Erasure,
Stetsasonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amon Düül,
Ten City,
CMW,
Amazonics,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.