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 Indonesia and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Erasure to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Barbara Tucker,
Panda Bear,
Gabor Szabo,
The Barracudas,
FM Einheit,
Roger Hodgson,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bauhaus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fela Kuti,
Dennis Brown,
The Wake,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Sound Behaviour,
Saccharine Trust,
Rotary Connection,
Cluster,
Delon & Dalcan,
Matthew Bourne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Beau Brummels,
The Mummies,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jawbox,
Scrapy,
New Order,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Gun Club,
Fad Gadget,
Hashim,
Mandrill,
Mary Jane Girls,
June Days,
Model 500,
China Crisis,
Rakim,
Ossler,
Country Teasers,
Lightning Bolt,
Chrome,
Silicon Teens,
Matthew Halsall,
Don Cherry,
Nico,
The Evens,
Wally Richardson,
Y Pants,
Trumans Water,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Duran Duran,
Minny Pops,
Bootsy Collins,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.