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 Tunisia and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Peter and Kerry to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yellowson,
Piero Umiliani,
Sandy B,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-102,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Christie,
Whodini,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gong,
The Names,
Jeff Mills,
Mission of Burma,
Urselle,
The Golliwogs,
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Susan Cadogan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed,
Kaleidoscope,
Throbbing Gristle,
Camberwell Now,
The Blackbyrds,
Drexciya,
Motorama,
June Days,
Nico,
Judy Mowatt,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fuzztones,
A Certain Ratio,
Dawn Penn,
Roxette,
The Dirtbombs,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Trojans,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Pretty Things,
Au Pairs,
Kenny Larkin,
Severed Heads,
Max Romeo,
The Raincoats,
Chris & Cosey,
Chrome,
Pylon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
D'Angelo,
Japan,
Slave,
Visage,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.