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 Libya and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
La Düsseldorf,
Flash Fearless,
The Five Americans,
Los Fastidios,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Tim Buckley,
Pagans,
D'Angelo,
Darondo,
Amon Düül II,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
Fluxion,
John Coltrane,
The Remains,
Porter Ricks,
Panda Bear,
The Electric Prunes,
Scratch Acid,
Scrapy,
EPMD,
MDC,
Interpol,
Todd Rundgren,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
Jacob Miller,
The Last Poets,
Letta Mbulu,
Maurizio,
Ornette Coleman,
Japan,
The Selecter,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Bar-Kays,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Can,
Quantec,
CMW,
Hasil Adkins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Josef K,
Depeche Mode,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Carl Craig,
Judy Mowatt,
the Germs,
Blake Baxter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Lynne,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.