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 Andorra and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Franke to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Urselle,
The Motions,
Roxette,
Television Personalities,
Tropical Tobacco,
Althea and Donna,
The Flesh Eaters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Q and Not U,
Ice-T,
Second Layer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
Junior Murvin,
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scientists,
Outsiders,
Minnie Riperton,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jesper Dahlback,
Buzzcocks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Archie Shepp,
Underground Resistance,
Tomorrow,
Eric Dolphy,
the Human League,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Prunes,
The Blues Magoos,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Los Fastidios,
Sarah Menescal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Warsaw,
The Velvet Underground,
New Order,
Swell Maps,
Eurythmics,
The Star Department,
Negative Approach,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
The Dave Clark Five,
Porter Ricks,
Deakin,
The Modern Lovers,
Hashim,
The Doors,
Gerry Rafferty,
Monks,
Nick Fraelich,
The Pop Group,
Excepter,
T.S.O.L.,
Dark Day,
Trumans Water,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.