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 Portugal and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Wasted Youth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
JFA,
L. Decosne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pagans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Human League,
Magma,
The Mummies,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ken Boothe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shoche,
The Gap Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
Hoover,
Bob Dylan,
Peter & Gordon,
Youth Brigade,
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quando Quango,
Essential Logic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker,
Jacob Miller,
Prince Buster,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Last Poets,
E-Dancer,
Ludus,
The Buckinghams,
Jeff Lynne,
Freddie Wadling,
Q65,
Popol Vuh,
The Real Kids,
H. Thieme,
Basic Channel,
Accadde A,
Sällskapet,
Alphaville,
Gong,
David Axelrod,
Archie Shepp,
The Doors,
Lee Hazlewood,
Livin' Joy,
the Normal,
Stereo Dub,
Scion,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.