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 Turkmenistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bobby Sherman to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Matthew Bourne,
Ken Boothe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sound,
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deepchord,
Joy Division,
Half Japanese,
Tres Demented,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Simply Red,
Funky Four + One,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thee Headcoats,
June of 44,
Lungfish,
Stetsasonic,
Marshall Jefferson,
ABBA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Infiniti,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bootsy Collins,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
Al Stewart,
Charles Mingus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roger Hodgson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roy Ayers,
Danielle Patucci,
Althea and Donna,
Nik Kershaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Monks,
New Order,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free,
Public Image Ltd.,
Youth Brigade,
Skaos,
The Blackbyrds,
Scientists,
Tears for Fears,
David Bowie,
FM Einheit,
Soulsonic Force,
Heaven 17,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.