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 Taipei.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lucky Dragons to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance 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?
Youth Brigade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thompson Twins,
Boz Scaggs,
Hoover,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fuzztones,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lightning Bolt,
Duran Duran,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deadbeat,
Sam Rivers,
Rosa Yemen,
Spoonie Gee,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mandrill,
Television,
Saccharine Trust,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fatback Band,
The Mojo Men,
Drexciya,
Lou Christie,
Loose Ends,
Japan,
The Motions,
Boogie Down Productions,
Outsiders,
Moby Grape,
Arab on Radar,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Underground Resistance,
Barry Ungar,
Joe Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
Fela Kuti,
Moebius,
Jacques Brel,
Scan 7,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eric Copeland,
Rotary Connection,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lucky Dragons,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unrelated Segments,
Suicide,
The Fugs,
This Heat,
Scientists,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brass Construction,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.