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 Spain and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the dance 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Nils Olav,
The Black Dice,
Jesper Dahlback,
Underground Resistance,
Panda Bear,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Birthday Party,
Gang of Four,
Pussy Galore,
Dave Gahan,
Don Cherry,
John Foxx,
MC5,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skaos,
the Human League,
Ludus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Goldenarms,
Sun City Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Outsiders,
The Moody Blues,
The Busters,
Glenn Branca,
Crime,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Wyatt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Association,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Grass Roots,
Ultravox,
One Last Wish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lungfish,
Tres Demented,
Cal Tjader,
Y Pants,
U.S. Maple,
The Raincoats,
Gregory Isaacs,
a-ha,
Pierre Henry,
The Gap Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ornette Coleman,
Mandrill,
The Litter,
Royal Trux,
Barclay James Harvest,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
Moby Grape,
The Martian,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Beau Brummels,
John Coltrane,
John Cale,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.