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 Hungary and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Lille and Seoul.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Theoretical Girls to the punk 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Underground Resistance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fear,
Gabor Szabo,
Model 500,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Flesh Eaters,
Japan,
The Velvet Underground,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barrington Levy,
Vainqueur,
Von Mondo,
Kaleidoscope,
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
The Zeros,
Danielle Patucci,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pantaleimon,
The Move,
Talk Talk,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
The Modern Lovers,
The Music Machine,
The Invisible,
The Wake,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ten City,
Jawbox,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crime,
Toni Rubio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quantec,
The Remains,
Marc Almond,
The Dead C,
The Doors,
Steve Hackett,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pussy Galore,
Tim Buckley,
Bob Dylan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Subhumans,
June Days,
Yazoo,
Ice-T,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ohio Players,
Curtis Mayfield,
Can,
Supertramp,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.