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 Lithuania and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 Toni Rubio to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Siglo XX,
Pagans,
Ohio Players,
Dual Sessions,
Skarface,
Babytalk,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Michelle Simonal,
Kaleidoscope,
Royal Trux,
Faraquet,
Barbara Tucker,
Sixth Finger,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Walker Brothers,
Gang of Four,
Gastr Del Sol,
Franke,
John Foxx,
Archie Shepp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Buzzcocks,
Dave Gahan,
Peter and Kerry,
Roxy Music,
Davy DMX,
Gang Green,
Tropical Tobacco,
Basic Channel,
Visage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Althea and Donna,
The Slits,
Roxette,
Warren Ellis,
Flipper,
June of 44,
Magazine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roy Ayers,
Fear,
Joyce Sims,
Dark Day,
Amon Düül,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cal Tjader,
Erasure,
David Axelrod,
Ponytail,
Soft Cell,
Tim Buckley,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
cv313,
Bush Tetras,
Jeru the Damaja,
Brothers Johnson,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.