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 Slovakia and from Lille.
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 Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Hashim,
The Velvet Underground,
Japan,
The Smoke,
Ralphi Rosario,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Faraquet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Davy DMX,
Angry Samoans,
Alison Limerick,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roxy Music,
Flipper,
The Fortunes,
Mark Hollis,
Dual Sessions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brothers Johnson,
Liliput,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Bourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scientists,
Stiv Bators,
DNA,
Joyce Sims,
The Fall,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sugar Minott,
Masters at Work,
Dennis Brown,
World's Most,
Smog,
Grey Daturas,
Crispian St. Peters,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers,
The Tremeloes,
Joy Division,
Susan Cadogan,
Lungfish,
The Walker Brothers,
Wolf Eyes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gang of Four,
June Days,
Pylon,
The Fugs,
The Motions,
Crash Course in Science,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.