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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Delhi.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the crunk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
John Cale,
The Moody Blues,
Loose Ends,
Boogie Down Productions,
Judy Mowatt,
Nik Kershaw,
Scion,
Accadde A,
Sonic Youth,
Toni Rubio,
LL Cool J,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jawbox,
Mandrill,
The New Christs,
Roxy Music,
Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
Joe Finger,
Excepter,
U.S. Maple,
Los Fastidios,
Pantaleimon,
Pharoah Sanders,
DJ Style,
Marvin Gaye,
Rites of Spring,
Tubeway Army,
the Germs,
Sixth Finger,
Idris Muhammad,
David McCallum,
Bad Manners,
Chris Corsano,
Archie Shepp,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pop Group,
Blancmange,
E-Dancer,
Magazine,
Brand Nubian,
Fad Gadget,
Skarface,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Slackers,
Bobby Womack,
The Count Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fugazi,
The Sonics,
The Fortunes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fall,
Roger Hodgson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.