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 Rwanda and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Wake to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Black Pus,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Copeland,
Flash Fearless,
Lucky Dragons,
The Monochrome Set,
the Sonics,
Kurtis Blow,
The Slackers,
Basic Channel,
Carl Craig,
Erykah Badu,
Spandau Ballet,
New Order,
Matthew Halsall,
T. Rex,
The Buckinghams,
Morten Harket,
Television,
John Cale,
Can,
Fluxion,
Theoretical Girls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Prunes,
Bill Near,
Glenn Branca,
The Smiths,
Suicide,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
The J.B.'s,
The Birthday Party,
ABBA,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Spoonie Gee,
Hashim,
The Black Dice,
The Cowsills,
the Swans,
The Cure,
Peter & Gordon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bauhaus,
Mark Hollis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxy Music,
Groovy Waters,
Index,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ronan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Jerry's Kids,
Lungfish,
Magma,
Matthew Bourne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dark Day,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.