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 Ethiopia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Alton Ellis,
The Mojo Men,
The Star Department,
Deepchord,
Organ,
Josef K,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Raincoats,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Lydon,
Connie Case,
Fugazi,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare,
Marvin Gaye,
Adolescents,
Bobby Sherman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dennis Brown,
Todd Terry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
DJ Sneak,
Main Source,
Crash Course in Science,
Hoover,
Intrusion,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang On A Can,
Eric Dolphy,
The Remains,
Slick Rick,
Chrome,
U.S. Maple,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dual Sessions,
Panda Bear,
Wire,
Deadbeat,
the Soft Cell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Slits,
The Toasters,
Sun Ra,
Essential Logic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joyce Sims,
This Heat,
Sister Nancy,
Sugar Minott,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Moon,
Fluxion,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Von Mondo,
Reuben Wilson,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.