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 Haiti and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Marc Almond to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Circle Jerks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joyce Sims,
Camberwell Now,
Aswad,
Connie Case,
Morten Harket,
E-Dancer,
Symarip,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Thompson Twins,
Crooked Eye,
Organ,
Chrome,
The Vogues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Laurel Aitken,
Angry Samoans,
Absolute Body Control,
Stetsasonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Flipper,
Eddi Front,
Goldenarms,
The Happenings,
Matthew Bourne,
Television Personalities,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Big Daddy Kane,
Glenn Branca,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fugazi,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Byrd,
The Human League,
The Doobie Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Faust,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
The Monks,
The Misunderstood,
The Barracudas,
Dark Day,
Adolescents,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
La Düsseldorf,
Rosa Yemen,
Agitation Free,
Andrew Hill,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Sherman,
The Grass Roots,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slits,
Y Pants,
Deakin,
Sällskapet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.