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 Greece and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Oneida to the rock 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson 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?
The Mojo Men,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gun Club,
China Crisis,
Dead Boys,
Icehouse,
Lightning Bolt,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonny Sharrock,
Boz Scaggs,
Supertramp,
ABC,
Joe Finger,
Black Bananas,
H. Thieme,
Carl Craig,
Subhumans,
Ludus,
Oblivians,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Infiniti,
Black Moon,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
The Vogues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kas Product,
The Pretty Things,
Siglo XX,
Massinfluence,
Patti Smith,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
a-ha,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jandek,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Smoke,
Eve St. Jones,
kango's stein massive,
Iggy Pop,
Pylon,
Scan 7,
Public Enemy,
The Count Five,
Zapp,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Busters,
Joyce Sims,
Neil Young,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Soft Cell,
Byron Stingily,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flipper,
Fela Kuti,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Associates,
The Move,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.