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 Egypt and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rufus Thomas to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
The Black Dice,
Aural Exciters,
H. Thieme,
The Doobie Brothers,
Second Layer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Das Ding,
Juan Atkins,
The Modern Lovers,
the Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hasil Adkins,
Arab on Radar,
Organ,
Von Mondo,
Wire,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Walker Brothers,
Drexciya,
Skarface,
Bobby Sherman,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Electric Prunes,
Magma,
One Last Wish,
The Gap Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water,
Boredoms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Wolf Eyes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sällskapet,
Mad Mike,
Whodini,
Sight & Sound,
Supertramp,
Chris & Cosey,
Sister Nancy,
MDC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ten City,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ossler,
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
Vainqueur,
Monolake,
Pagans,
Scan 7,
The Slackers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.