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 United States and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jerry's Kids to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Derrick Morgan,
PIL,
Motorama,
Dave Gahan,
Michelle Simonal,
The Black Dice,
Sparks,
Negative Approach,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
Nico,
the Human League,
Echospace,
CMW,
Cameo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alphaville,
Gerry Rafferty,
Smog,
Soft Machine,
Sandy B,
Robert Wyatt,
Bad Manners,
The Smoke,
Jeff Mills,
Mandrill,
Steve Hackett,
Erykah Badu,
Magazine,
Con Funk Shun,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kaleidoscope,
The Star Department,
F. McDonald,
Connie Case,
The Misunderstood,
Crime,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Excepter,
Pole,
Interpol,
Moss Icon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
KRS-One,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Holt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Lynne,
Japan,
Television,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.