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 Vietnam and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Radiohead to the punk 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
Ohio Players,
Morten Harket,
the Association,
Sparks,
Basic Channel,
Circle Jerks,
The Busters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeff Mills,
Amon Düül II,
The American Breed,
48th St. Collective,
Sixth Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gichy Dan,
Alton Ellis,
Roxette,
Neu!,
Peter and Kerry,
F. McDonald,
Barclay James Harvest,
Surgeon,
The Evens,
Absolute Body Control,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gong,
Tubeway Army,
Japan,
The Fugs,
Bronski Beat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Amazonics,
Audionom,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minnie Riperton,
Loose Ends,
Deakin,
Rufus Thomas,
Lindisfarne,
Los Fastidios,
Tears for Fears,
Minny Pops,
Scratch Acid,
Chris Corsano,
The Standells,
Youth Brigade,
Anakelly,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Subhumans,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Wells,
Second Layer,
T. Rex,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.