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 Thailand and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 June Days to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Steve Hackett,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeru the Damaja,
Vladislav Delay,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bauhaus,
Ken Boothe,
Lightning Bolt,
Flash Fearless,
the Slits,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wings,
Soft Cell,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gabor Szabo,
Rekid,
Japan,
Country Teasers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Average White Band,
The Wake,
Scott Walker,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Modern Lovers,
Matthew Halsall,
Subhumans,
The Mummies,
Infiniti,
Adolescents,
Agitation Free,
World's Most,
Bobby Sherman,
the Sonics,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Accadde A,
Soul II Soul,
Funky Four + One,
Cameo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Todd Rundgren,
X-Ray Spex,
Skarface,
Kenny Larkin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kaleidoscope,
Dead Boys,
Can,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tom Boy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Goldenarms,
Ultravox,
The Buckinghams,
Man Parrish,
Parry Music,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.