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 St Lucia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kerri Chandler to the disco 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barrington Levy,
Country Teasers,
Easy Going,
Rites of Spring,
Erasure,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Sherman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Walker Brothers,
Dual Sessions,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ten City,
Bluetip,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
Janne Schatter,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Invisible,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Man Parrish,
Livin' Joy,
10cc,
Barry Ungar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scott Walker,
PIL,
Technova,
AZ,
Ohio Players,
T.S.O.L.,
Amon Düül,
The Black Dice,
The Kinks,
Babytalk,
Rod Modell,
John Lydon,
Absolute Body Control,
Judy Mowatt,
Kas Product,
Black Pus,
Inner City,
Sällskapet,
Brand Nubian,
Joensuu 1685,
Glenn Branca,
Deepchord,
Cecil Taylor,
Magazine,
Tim Buckley,
The Trojans,
Gabor Szabo,
Morten Harket,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Supertramp,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.