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 Azerbaijan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Avey Tare,
Intrusion,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cowsills,
the Sonics,
Angry Samoans,
Sun City Girls,
Nirvana,
Pylon,
Jandek,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cameo,
The Smoke,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alton Ellis,
Can,
In Retrospect,
Ice-T,
The Walker Brothers,
Faraquet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Henry Cow,
Arcadia,
FM Einheit,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tears for Fears,
Rekid,
Stockholm Monsters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Grass Roots,
The Monks,
Al Stewart,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Surgeon,
Lyres,
Max Romeo,
Sällskapet,
David Bowie,
Gregory Isaacs,
Archie Shepp,
EPMD,
Chris Corsano,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Christie,
Dead Boys,
X-102,
Neu!,
Livin' Joy,
Kas Product,
Metal Thangz,
The New Christs,
Eli Mardock,
Gong,
Deepchord,
Marine Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.