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 South Sudan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Shoche to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Banda Bassotti,
Bush Tetras,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lyres,
Young Marble Giants,
Delon & Dalcan,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
This Heat,
Al Stewart,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Freddie Wadling,
Dark Day,
The Leaves,
Livin' Joy,
Popol Vuh,
Mandrill,
Lungfish,
Kas Product,
Stiv Bators,
Aloha Tigers,
Fluxion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bizarre Inc.,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
Porter Ricks,
China Crisis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Japan,
the Germs,
Idris Muhammad,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Reuben Wilson,
Stereo Dub,
Intrusion,
Radiohead,
Rites of Spring,
Jacob Miller,
Das Ding,
Jawbox,
Soft Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol,
The Alarm Clocks,
Matthew Halsall,
Audionom,
Stetsasonic,
Make Up,
Morten Harket,
Magma,
The Toasters,
Whodini,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Althea and Donna,
Ludus,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.