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 Belize and from Milan.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Neil Young,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Television Personalities,
JFA,
Flipper,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
CMW,
Leonard Cohen,
Tommy Roe,
Scrapy,
Television,
Anakelly,
Von Mondo,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Flag,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ten City,
Public Enemy,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Make Up,
Depeche Mode,
Silicon Teens,
The Music Machine,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soulsonic Force,
Vainqueur,
Sound Behaviour,
Freddie Wadling,
Young Marble Giants,
Swell Maps,
The Toasters,
Sparks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Seeds,
Henry Cow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Crash Course in Science,
Babytalk,
the Swans,
Rekid,
Bill Near,
Skaos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Moleskins,
Brass Construction,
Black Moon,
The Mojo Men,
Clear Light,
The Birthday Party,
Sällskapet,
Gang of Four,
The Litter,
Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.