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 Singapore and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Half Japanese to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Roxette 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Basic Channel,
X-101,
Trumans Water,
One Last Wish,
Erasure,
Yazoo,
Clear Light,
Underground Resistance,
Scrapy,
Warren Ellis,
The Busters,
Ornette Coleman,
Lungfish,
Spoonie Gee,
David Axelrod,
Roy Ayers,
Oneida,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Music Machine,
Chris & Cosey,
Faust,
Alphaville,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moebius,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Sheep,
The Fugs,
Al Stewart,
Guru Guru,
Excepter,
The Move,
Rotary Connection,
Icehouse,
Quando Quango,
The Doors,
The Count Five,
Kurtis Blow,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
U.S. Maple,
Robert Görl,
Eric Dolphy,
John Holt,
The Kinks,
Hardrive,
The Gladiators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pretty Things,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Skriet,
Spandau Ballet,
FM Einheit,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Sneak,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.