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 Zambia and from Manila.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Glenn Branca to the dance 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Camberwell Now,
Alice Coltrane,
Radiohead,
The Real Kids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eden Ahbez,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultravox,
Alphaville,
Bobby Womack,
Kas Product,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Bananas,
The Cure,
Deadbeat,
Zero Boys,
Little Man,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Max Romeo,
Oblivians,
Amon Düül II,
The Leaves,
Procol Harum,
Second Layer,
Average White Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Motorama,
Y Pants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kerri Chandler,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Kerrie Biddell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Au Pairs,
Minor Threat,
cv313,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
OOIOO,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marmalade,
Barclay James Harvest,
Zapp,
Groovy Waters,
Nico,
Lebanon Hanover,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bauhaus,
Kurtis Blow,
Sällskapet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Interpol,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.