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 France and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Derrick May to the rap 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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Ponytail,
Cameo,
Maleditus Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Godley & Creme,
Soft Cell,
Qualms,
The Zeros,
Byron Stingily,
The Birthday Party,
The Fugs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marc Almond,
Bauhaus,
Boredoms,
Ohio Players,
The Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
One Last Wish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Brass Construction,
Camberwell Now,
Circle Jerks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Susan Cadogan,
Dawn Penn,
The Barracudas,
Peter & Gordon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Wyatt,
The Smiths,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
Popol Vuh,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Techniques,
R.M.O.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roger Hodgson,
Magma,
Chris & Cosey,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Au Pairs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Talk Talk,
Hot Snakes,
Underground Resistance,
Banda Bassotti,
Cheater Slicks,
Second Layer,
Aloha Tigers,
The Flesh Eaters,
The United States of America,
Dual Sessions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.