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 Botswana and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the grunge 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ken Boothe,
Pagans,
Alton Ellis,
The Modern Lovers,
Yaz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Von Mondo,
F. McDonald,
Swell Maps,
Tom Boy,
Duran Duran,
Jandek,
Camberwell Now,
Technova,
Colin Newman,
Brothers Johnson,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tomorrow,
Royal Trux,
Negative Approach,
10cc,
Eve St. Jones,
Brass Construction,
The Cowsills,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fat Boys,
Cybotron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Clear Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cramps,
Erykah Badu,
Hardrive,
Danielle Patucci,
Ten City,
Howard Jones,
Nas,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Wyatt,
Absolute Body Control,
The Raincoats,
Minor Threat,
OOIOO,
The Index,
The Misunderstood,
The Angels of Light,
Neil Young,
Slave,
Boogie Down Productions,
K-Klass,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultravox,
Vladislav Delay,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Al Stewart,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.