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 Ireland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Q and Not U to the rap 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
Vainqueur,
Throbbing Gristle,
Inner City,
Althea and Donna,
Pantaleimon,
Neu!,
Camouflage,
The Techniques,
The Vogues,
Shoche,
Radio Birdman,
Kerri Chandler,
Altered Images,
Fela Kuti,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Y Pants,
The Alarm Clocks,
New Order,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Ohio Players,
Model 500,
a-ha,
B.T. Express,
Popol Vuh,
Lightning Bolt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Swans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultimate Spinach,
Maleditus Sound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chrome,
Mandrill,
Ossler,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sugar Minott,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minor Threat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kenny Larkin,
kango's stein massive,
Franke,
The Golliwogs,
Unwound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Faust,
Television Personalities,
Joe Smooth,
Joe Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Slave,
Khruangbin,
Colin Newman,
Yellowson,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.